Web providers have started stepping up to the plate since Firesheep was released in 2010. Today, most major websites can provide SSL/TLS during all transactions, preventing cookie data from leaking over wired Ethernet or insecure Wi-Fi. But the fact remains that Firesheep was more of a toy than a tool – and so I’ve created ‘Cookie Cadger’, the first open-source pen-testing tool ever made for intercepting and replaying specific insecure HTTP GET requests into a browser. Cookie Cadger is a graphical utility which harnesses the power of the Wireshark suite and Java to provide a fully cross-platform, entirely open-source utility which can monitor wired Ethernet or insecure Wi-Fi for requests, or load a pre-captured pcap file for offline analysis. The utility (+ source!) will be released to the world during the talk.
Matthew Sullivan is graduate student in the Information Assurance and Computer Engineering departments at Iowa State University. When not in class, Matthew enjoys working on many side projects both inside and outside the realm of computer security. He works as a graduate research assistant at Iowa State University and a tech specialist at The Krell Institute in Ames, Iowa.