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Following the appearance of Firesheep on Firefox browsers, there has been an increase in hijacking of profiles while the account holder is online. Late last fall, a Firefox plugin called Firesheep was released. In 2010, Eric Butler released a Firefox add-on called Firesheep. Undoubtedly spurred on by tools like Firesheep, this is slowly but surely making the web more secure. Firesheep's authors can be the satisfied with the gradual migration towards ssl that most of the biggest social networks, search engines, online shops and others have embarked upon since its advent. After the report, MySpace promised to stop. Https is largely effective at blocking snooping tools like Firesheep, which hackers can use to glean sensitive information from unprotected Hotmail users. Naughty pc users sitting near you in a café or airport can easily “sidejack” your unencrypted social-networking sessions, as a prankish researcher proved last fall when he released the sidejacking Firefox add-on Firesheep to an unprepared world. Facebook is sure taking its sweet time rolling this out. Firesheep has been out for more than three months, and the eff released a plugin for secure Facebook connections back in June. Even the https option is half measure. Twitter users are being urged to turn on the service’s new https encryption setting to close a security loophole. After what seems like an eternity (punctuated by the ‘hacking’ of Ashton Kutcher’s account) Twitter has finally enabled HTTPs on their web site. Twitter has finally provided a way to stop sidejacking attacks on user’s accounts with the addition of constant https encryption on the site. Orome1 writes “firesheep’s authors can be the satisfied with the gradual migration towards ssl that most of the biggest social networks, search engines, online shops and others have embarked upon since its advent. So did Ashton Kutcher complain after he got Twitter hacked at TED? As of today, Firesheep weary Twitter users can check the “always Use HTTPS” setting at the bottom of Settings on their profiles. Over the past year or so, we’ve seen a major push by a few of the large Internet companies to move towards ssl encryption — that is, https instead of the standard old HTTP. Twitter allows users to lock in use of HTTPS–meaning not just any amateur sitting next to you in a cafe can hack your account.