Firesheep Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Hotspot Shield adds iOS connection protection with inexpensive VPN

by Michael Rose (Nov 13th, 2011)

If you're a security-conscious web surfer -- or an international traveler who likes to maintain access to US-based video streaming or voice services -- you may already be one of the millions of users of AnchorFree's Hotspot Shield, one of the leading consumer virtual private network (VPN) ...

How to guard yourself and your Mac from Firesheep and Wi-Fi snooping

by TJ Luoma (Oct 26th, 2010)

The prevalence of free/cheap and open Wi-Fi networks in coffee shops, airports, offices and hotels is a great boon to the traveling Mac or iPad user; it makes connectivity and remote work much easier than it used to be. Unfortunately, since most of those networks don't employ WEP or WPA passwords to ...