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The two flaws allow man-in-the-middle attacks that would give an attacker access to all data flowing through the router. Continue reading ASUS Home Router Bugs Open Consumers to Snooping Attacks
I have a MediaWiki website in Hebrew;
As common with MediaWiki websites, it has lots of content and rebuilding it in case of a disaster isn’t feasible.
I chose to give that website a Global TLD (a non Israeli X.il TLD) because:
Currently,… Continue reading Protecting a website from being kidnapped
Let’s imagine a data link layer level MITM attack. Is it possible to fulfill all of the following points?
you completely hide your identity by forging your own MAC address
you create malformed packets, so the router doesn’t even know you … Continue reading Is the perfect MITM attack possible?
I have noticed requests to my server coming from Facebook and I am a bit worried about what’s going on. I have correlated some with Instagram URL previews, but if this is the case, I wonder whether or not Facebook/Instagram is man-in-the-m… Continue reading Facebook app MITMs web requests? [closed]
Since I cannot receive email directly from my home server, I need an external device to receive messages for me and deliver them to my MTA via another port or via VPN. Instead of renting a VPS just for this, I was thinking about purchasing… Continue reading Full disk encryption and remote unlocking a mail server in the hand of a possible attacker, what could go wrong?
I’ve read this post where it says:
"…an attacker can still take the whole signed content and present it
to you but won’t be able to change any details or the signature won’t
match."
How does the browser validate the details … Continue reading Certificate validation details. How it’s done? [closed]
I’ve been looking into ways to detect a Man In the Middle attack, when the client has "duped" into trusting third party CA. Examples of this are, anti-virus applications and corporate firewalls who are now installing their own c… Continue reading Detecting a web based MITM attack?
Assume I passed on my public key to a service provider for them to set up a "new" server and configure it for private key authentication (instead of root password).
Is the server fingerprint verification during my initial connect… Continue reading Server SSH fingerprint verification when authenticating with private key
If CAs (Certification Authorities) start advertizing public keys of verified websites via some API, browsers can simply query them for each domain instead of asking websites to give them certificates signed by CAs. If malicious entities tr… Continue reading Why don’t CAs advertize public keys of verified entities on a central location instead of giving out signed certificates?
In below ssl diagram :
I have one doubt with 1-way ssl. If there is an interceptor in-between client and server who can alter in following way :
In step 8, when client is sending his symetric key to server, encrypted by server’s public k… Continue reading authenication of client in one way ssl [duplicate]