Hacking Add-ons for Mozilla Firefox
Hacking Add-ons For Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is one of the most popular Internet browsers around
the world. What make it so special are the thousands of add-ons created
by developers to shape the browser according to their wish. Mozilla has
always been the favourite browser for hackers. From Packet sniffing
add-ons to proxy add-ons, Firefox is the home of hackers. Let’s check out 5 hacking add-ons for Mozilla firefox.
1) Firesheep Add-on
firesheep add-on for mozilla firefox
Firesheep is one of the most powerful add-ons plugin for Firefox
version 3.6 or later, which gained much fame in a few days of its
launch. The basic concept of Firesheep was, that it used a packet
sniffer which encapsulated the unencrypted cookie data for social
networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter and hence giving a free
ticket to hackers to log in the victim’s account without entering
username or password of the victim. The technique is known as session
hijacking, cookie stealing and many such synonyms underlining the fact
of stealing the cookie. The add-on copies the unique cookie data into a
list (which you’ll notice at the right side of your browser) and double
clicking the cookie gives you access. A cookie is basically a packet
with encrypted hash about the information of the user’s secure page,
which is generated at the time of login. The “Remember me” function is
totally based on this unique hash cookie data, allowing you to skip the
login process for frequent logins. So, in case a cookie theft, the
browser with your cookie information assumes it to be and passes the
login process. Eric Butler basically launched the add-ons plugin at a
security point of view to demonstrate the risk of session hijacking and
what unencrypted sessions could do. The act somewhat brought a security
to users and method seems to sink at secure connections (HTTPS
Connections).
Firesheep works on Windows platform and Mac, while it is not suitable yet for Linux.
2) Greasemonkey
Greasemonkey add-on for mozilla firefox
The Greasemonkey project, started in November, 2004 is another quite
famous and innovative Firefox extension bringing a boon to the
programmers. Greasemonkey provides a step to augmented browsing which
means manipulating the webpage before or after it has been loaded with
use of scripts installed as per user’s choice and coder’s calibre.
Scripts are usually coded in JavaScript, and can be generated in CSS or
XUL too. The webpages can be rendered as per like and ability of the
webpage to be manipulated using JavaScript. Userscripts.org maintains a
database of nearly all the greasemonkey scripts by all coders who submit
it there and can directly be installed within the browser. Greasemonkey
uses the Document Object Model interface to amend the webpage or a
complete website. (Greasemonkey renders the page as to user and not
globally.) Greasemonkey has been functional in providing an easy-to-do
way for many sites from Facebook, Gmail, one click delete options,
preventing pop ups on external clicks on hotmail, has the ability to
embed price comparison while online shopping hence, can combine data
from multiple webpages, can render the appearance of the site to fixing
the bugs. Apart from these, Greasemonkey has been into controversies for
providing hackers a way to render the page negatively, But now user
scripts only allows certain set of instructions which coders must
follow.
Greasemonkey works with all Firefox versions.
3) Advanced dork
As we know, Google is the most powerful search engine at present and
it cannot be a bane for anyone. Google is one of the best tools, for
penetration testers and other security experts to directly reach the
vulnerability through the search engine. Google allows you to search the
web with its advanced techniques, letting our search to be in depth and
specific. Google has millions of ways to track your search and provide
required result, but remembering those million queries and techniques is
complicated, This is where Advanced Dork Firefox plug-in comes into
play. Advanced Dork saves a lot of time, and providing easy to use
search features and along with provides a space to learn to people who
are not aware of advanced Google search engines techniques. All these
queries are just a right click away. Using advanced Dork is quite
simple, You just have to select the word and choose from 15+ Google
advanced operators such as intitle: inurl: intext: site: ext: and
filetype etc., which render your search according to your need. Right
clicking a hyperlink also provides features to search the linked domain
and similarly, right clicking the address bar provides features like
inurl, link, and cache, to search within the domain (not the present
directory of the domain). Quoting again, Google is the most powerful
tool on the web and Advanced dork brings you the ability to use it as
powerfully as it is meant to be.
4) Cookie swap /Add n Edit cookies
Cookie Swap and Add n Edit Cookies are plug-ins of the same platform
and used for session hijacking as explained in the first point. A cookie
stores the session information of the user. A cookie for a hacker is as
useful as a password; rather cookie works for a week or so even after
the password is changed. This add-on help us to edit the cookies for a
certain login session. If we have the unique cookie data for a specific
user, we edit our cookies with the victim’s cookies, And Poof! We get a
free ticket to that authenticated information. Cookie editor tools are
vastly used not only to swap cookies and hack other sessions but for
education purposes too.
5) FoxyProxy
FoxyProxy Hacking add-on For Firefox
For hackers and Security experts, Staying behind the covers is a very
vital element for their procedures. Proxy servers help a user to
maintain the anonymity and reach the data restricted to their country or
ip address range. Foxyproxy, with over 13 million downloads and
translation is more than 34 languages offer reliable proxy servers in
over 50 countries around the globe. The servers are automatically
changed according to the URL patterns. Advanced loggings and animated
icons show you which proxy servers were used for which URL providing
complete Foxyproxy usage details. Though many such add-ons like
TorButton, SwitchProxy, QuickProxy, xyzproxy, ProxyButton, ProxyTex ,
etc. Already exist to be used while you browse but FoxyProxy is the best
of it and provides more features than others.
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