Droidsheep-Android Application for Session Hijacking

Android is one of the best and most famous operating system for mobile devices, mobile devices is now a important part of our life and we are using it every where in any condition. There are a lot people that are using Wifi on their mobile devices. Look at the past when we had a Firefox ad ons that can hijack Facebook, Twitter and other social networking websites sessions and the tool is called Firesheep, after this we got FaceNiff the purpose is same means session hijacking while Faceniff is for android OS.

Now there is another best tool for Android OS that can hijack session and it called Droidsheep.

What Is DroidSheep ?

DroidSheep is a simple Android tool for web session hijacking (sidejacking). It listens for HTTP packets sent via a wireless (802.11) network connection and extracts the session id from these packets in order to reuse them.

DroidSheep can capture sessions using the libpcap library and supports: OPEN Networks WEP encrypted networks WPA and WPA2 encrypted networks (PSK only). This software uses libpcap and arpspoof. DroidSheep has been developed with support of the information security team of the University of Trier.

Requirement

You need an android-powered device, running at least version 2.1 of Android  You need Root-Access on your phone (link)  You need DroidSheep

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DroidSheep Video Tutorial

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