Android Users Can Hack Facebook Accounts with Ease

Do you have an Android phone? Is it rooted? Well, congratulations, you can hack any Facebook account of anyone who is using Facebook on the same wireless network you happen to be using. A new app called FaceNiff makes this all very possible. The way this app works is very simple. The app "sniffs" for any unencypted connections to Facebook or Twitter on any currently connected network. You view and submit posts and statuses on others Facebook profiles just like if you had legitmately logged into your own Facebook. Now, we should also mention that you avoid having your accounts suseptible to this by simply setting your Facebook and Twitter accounts to use HTTPS by default, as HTTPS connections are encrypted and therefore not detectable by FaceNiff. The author of this program, claims that this also will work for Twitter, and some obscure Polish social networking site, Nasza-Klasa (I assume this is because the author is Polish).

Use this responsibly folks. Feel free to hack and have fun but do not be stupid about it. Just secure your stuff first.

The FaceNiff site:
http://faceniff.ponury.net/

How to set Facebook to use HTTPS by default:
https://www.facebook.com/blog.php?post=486790652130

How to set Twitter to use HTTPS by default:
http://blog.twitter.com/2011/03/making-twitter-more-secure-https.html

Now, a good video of FaceNiff in action: