Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

Man-in-the–middle attacks

In the next few sections, we're going to talk about what are known as man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. This is one of the most dangerous and effective attacks that we can carry out in a network. We can only do it once we have connected to the network. It can be used to redirect the flow of packets from any client to our device. This means that any packet that is sent to or from the client will have to go through our device, and since we know the password we know the key to the network, so we will be able to read those packets. They won't be encrypted, and we will be able to modify them, drop them, or just read them to see if they contain passwords or important information. This attack is so effective because it's ...