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Applied Network Security
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Applied Network Security

by Warun Levesque, Arthur Salmon, Michael McLafferty
April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
8h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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What is an MITM attack?

Basically an MITM attack is a method used to eavesdrop into the network to listen undisclosed between two systems. MITM is not the. This cyber-attack involves intercepting the traffic of data and communication between two or more hosts can either be manipulated, obstructed, or commonly passed through unnoticed to collectively harvest sensitive data. The attack may also be infiltrating to impersonate and phish for specific information. This type of attack can also be conducted with HTTPs by having an SSL connection with the attacker who then establishes another SSL with the web server. You may or may not get a warning regarding the validity of the certificate, depending if the attacker had either forged or signed with ...

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ISBN: 9781786466273