man-in-the-middle

Assuming I managed to be in the middle of the communication between a client and a server (let's say that I open up a hotspot and cause the client to connect to the server only through my machine). How can I alter packets that my client sends and receives without interrupting my own communication with other services? There must be a way to route all of the packets the client both sends and is about to receive (before forwarding them to him) through my script. I think that the correct direction of going about accomplishing this is with iptables but not sure exactly what arguments would fit to

I have been looking at TLS recently, and I am unsure as to why it is so secure, but probably thanks to a misunderstanding of how it works. But if the entire handshake is recorded, either using a man in the middle attack or a packet sniffer on the target computer, then any of the remaining communication can be decrypted as you would have all the info that the client and the server used to generate the encryption keys. I doubt there would be such a hole in tls, but could anyone tell me how tls defends against this? The critical data sent by the client to the server in the TLS handshake is

I'm trying to create a PHP webpage that allow the visitor to see a video stream or an image coming from a webcam without allowing the visitors to grab it's original URL/URI . In other words, I have an ip camera operating at a given address:port and I can see the stream embedding in a HTML body something like this: <img src="http://5.246.77.89:8080/videostream.cgi?user=myusername&pwd=mypass&resolution=32&rate=15" alt=""> or alternatively if we want a static image: <img src="http://5.246.77.89:8080/snapshot.cgi?user=myusername&pwd=mypass&amp" alt=""> Now the problem is that if anyone look at the

This question already has an answer here: How to create Man in the Middle instrumentation 3 answers We seem to be going round in circles a bit at the moment. We are looking for simple light weight, preferably ruby based proxy that enables us to do the following. Proxy HTTPS requests between a browser and a Web app. e.g. GMail Intercept and modify the request/responses - Man in the Middle modification Generate on the fly SSL certs (or maybe us pre-configured) for use between the proxy and the browser Using Ruby, we've experimented with em-proxy and Goliath but I don't think these are quite the

The Django documentation on its CSRF protection states that: In addition, for HTTPS requests, strict referer checking is done by CsrfViewMiddleware. This is necessary to address a Man-In-The-Middle attack that is possible under HTTPS when using a session independent nonce, due to the fact that HTTP 'Set-Cookie' headers are (unfortunately) accepted by clients that are talking to a site under HTTPS. (Referer checking is not done for HTTP requests because the presence of the Referer header is not reliable enough under HTTP.) I have trouble visualizing how this attack works. Could somebody explain

I've reinstalled my server and I am getting these messages: [user@hostname ~]$ ssh root@pong @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY! Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)! It is also possible that a host key has just been changed. The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is 6e:45:f9:a8:af:38:3d:a1:a5:c7:76:1d:02:f8:77:00. Please contact your system