Top 15 Firesheep Alternative and Similar Softwares | May 2024

When logging into a website you usually start by submitting your username and password. The server then checks to see if an account matching this information exists and if so, replies back to you with a "cookie" which is used by your browser for all subsequent requests.
It's extremely common for websites to protect your password by encrypting the initial login, but surprisingly uncommon for websites to encrypt everything else. This leaves the cookie (and the user) vulnerable. HTTP session hijacking (sometimes called "sidejacking") is when an attacker gets a hold of a user's cookie, allowing them to do anything the user can do on a particular website. On an open wireless network, cookies are basically shouted through the air, making these attacks extremely easy. ...

1. Download Statusbar

Download Statusbar Download Statusbar: View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar - without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing. Despite its compact size, Download Statusbar packs in more useful features than the standard download window. The fully customizable interface auto-hides when not in use, allowing......

2. Web Developer

Web Developer The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox, Flock and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.......

3. PhotoJacker

PhotoJacker [SHUTDOWN BY FACEBOOK on January 26, 2011 : read more on http://www.photojacker.com/takedown ]PhotoJacker, formerly known as FacePAD, will allow you to download your friends’ entire Facebook albums with a click of a button.......

4. Add-on Collector

Add-on Collector Categorize, mix, match and mingle all your add-ons in one slick spot built into your browser. Migrate collections from machine to machine, ping your friends with top recommendations, and subscribe to collections you admire, so you'll hear when they grow. Maybe you're an avid add-on master or just like to......

5. FoxyTunes

FoxyTunes Do you listen to Music while surfing the Web? FoxyTunes lets you control almost any media player and find lyrics, covers, videos, bios and much more with a click right from your browser & Yahoo! Messenger......

6. Sothink Web Video Downloader

Sothink Web Video Downloader Sothink Web Video Downloader for Firefox, a simple and free Firefox video downloader extension, is one of the most popular free YouTube downloader for you to quickly capture video, download video and save video from YouTube, Facebook, MSN, MySpace, Google Video, Yahoo Video, Vimeo, Revver and almost all popular video......

7. TrackerScan

TrackerScan TrackerScan shows you what companies may be using or collecting information about your activities and interests as you use different websites, how they promise promise to handle your information and how you can opt-out.With TrackerScan you can monitor privacy while you surf. Click on the eye from any page and......

8. BlackSheep

BlackSheep BlackSheep is a Firefox add-on which warns users if someone is using Firesheep on their network. It also indicates the IP address of the machine that is spying on you.To understand how BlackSheep works, we first need to understand the details of FireSheep. FireSheep listens to the HTTP traffic on......

9. Scriptish

Scriptish Scriptish forked off Greasemonkey because enough developers felt its development had grown stagnant.......

10. FoxToPhone

FoxToPhone Combined with the Google Chrome to Phone application for Android, this extension allows to send urls, text and files from Firefox to your phone or tablet. Features (same as ChromeToPhone)- Send current page with address bar button- Send currently selected text (max 1024 chars) to the phone's clipboard......

11. YouTube Unblocker

YouTube Unblocker Unblock all YouTube videos, the search results and embedded videos easily and fast.Features:* automated unblocking of disabled videos (e.g. from VEVO) and enabling the loading of the YouTube search engine with US, UK and FR proxy servers to specifically find disabled videos* recognition and unblocking of embedded videos,......

12. BarTab Heavy

BarTab Heavy BarTab Heavy is an unofficial publication of the latest fork of the original BarTab. Keep in mind the last developer is no longer active and claims this version still has some bugs.Tabs consume system memory and if they have scripts running they can also consume processor time, video and audio......

13. dSploit

dSploit dSploit is an Android network analysis and penetration suite which aims to offer to IT security experts/geeks the most complete and advanced professional toolkit to perform network security assesments on a mobile device. Once dSploit is started, you will be able to easily map your network, fingerprint alive hosts operating......

14. BlackBuntu

BlackBuntu Blackbuntu is distribution for penetration testing which was specially designed for security training students and practitioners of information security.Blackbuntu is Ubuntu base distro for Penetration Testing with GNOME Desktop Environment. It's currently being built using the Ubuntu 10.10.......

15. Password Composer

Password Composer Generate a different, safe password for every site you register with. You only need to invent and remember one strong Master Password. Available also as Firefox extension, Greasemonkey User Script and Bookmarklet.......