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Blacksheep : Another Way to Avoid FireSheep!
This is an intelligent tool in a sense that you get to know the IP address of the attacker who is running FireSheep. Suitably, BlackSheep is also a Firefox plugin, that is designed to combat FireSheep. It does so by dropping 'fake' session IDs on the wire and then monitoring traffic to see if it has been hijacked. BlackSheep identifies FireSheep via a request to a domain that it identifies session information. Using this hijacked session information, FireSheep contacts the targeted host in order to obtain the name of the hijacked user along with an image of the person, if available. When identified, the user will be receive the following warning message:
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