Understanding Man-in-the-Middle Attacks and Prevention Strategies

The man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack is the attempt by an attacker to implant himself between the client (browser, mail client, IM client) and a server serving some web page or other content. The attacker receives all requests and responses to and from the server, reads the content and passes it along to either side. Do you think we need to educate the users about Digital Certificates of web browsers? This article reviews the MITM attacks and how it should be prevented if it really happen. Read on for more information.

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