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Man-in-theMiddle Attacks: Helping to Eliminate the Threat Without Impacting the Business

Category: Security

Overview Well known in the cryptography community, Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attacks have long been recognized as a potential threat to Web-based transactions by security experts. But in the summer of 2006, and ongoing through 2008 and beyond, these attacks became much more widely recognized as a serious and real threat when a large, global financial institution's business customers were targeted by attackers using MITM tactics. Leveraging one of the most serious methods of compromising Web transactions, MITM attackers "Get in the middle" - or between a customer and a legitimate Web-based application. From this position, they intercept all communications and can not only observe but also modify transactions.

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Entrust
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Date Published
May 16, 2009
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Network Security, Security Management

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