Friday, May 30, 2014

With Heartbleed as a wake up, what is a Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack?

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Zuk Avraham is the CEO and founder of Zimperium. You grab your coffee, connect to the coffee shop’s Wi-Fi and begin working. You’ve done this a hundred times before. Nothing seems out of the ordinary, but someone is watching you. They’re monitoring your Web activity, logging your bank credentials, home address, personal email and contacts – and you won’t know it until it’s too late. Today’s thief won’t steal your wallet out of your back pocket on the subway, but instead will use an arsenal of cyber-attack methods to secretly pry your information from you. While you’re checking your account information...

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With Heartbleed as a wake up, what is a Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack?

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