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Revision as of 21:35, 29 April 2007
- This is an Attack. To view all attacks, please see the Attack Category page.
Description
A Man In The Middle (MITM) attack is a form of attack in which an evil hacker can trick end users in to thinking he is a bank or other such service in order to 'sniff' or steal the users login credentials.
Examples
<img src='http://www.arcot.com/mitm/images/mitm_diagram_lg.gif'>
Image courtesy of www.arcot.com [1]
In this example you see the attacker intercepting, logging and stealing any information passed to the server.
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