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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.
  
 
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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

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