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Now i was reluctant to post this up because the more people that know about it, the more people who will exploit this method. There are two new SIMPLE ways of hacking a Facebook account. The first is by using a program called Firesheep. Firesheep is a free plugin for firefox that allows users to capture the Facebook cookie of anyone on their wifi network and duplicate it into their browser. Since the Facebook cookies are essentially the way it knows that you've logged in already, the users of Firesheep have an automatic "in" to all your private info.

Now Firesheep has been out for a while and does not run on many of the later versions of FireFox so it's not to big of a worry, but there are still a number of people who have made modifications to make it work.

The second method is the one that scares me the most. FaceNiff is an application designed for your smart phone that does the exact same thing as Firesheep...only its mobile. I have tried FaceNiff on my network at home and let me tell you, it works... Almost too well.
Lucky for those who care about security flaws there is a solution. If you dont want to have to worry about people using these apps to jack your info all you have to do is enable HTTPS in your Facebook settings. HTTPS is more secure than the standard HTTP that is enabled by default on your Facebook. With HTTPS you can log in and out of your Facebook without worrying about people using these applications against you.

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