How to prevent Man-in-the-Middle attacks?
- Always use trusted networks and devices to log in to sensitive websites.
- Avoid connecting to a Wi-Fi that is open(unencrypted).
- Keeping networks secure from unwanted external access.
- In case you have to use a public computer, check its browser for the presence of any rogue certificate and make sure that there aren’t any. Check the hosts’ file too.
- When connected to a public network or using a public computer, perform a traceroute to the website you want to access and see the route taken by the packets for anything suspicious. For example, packets going to an IP different from the IP whose last octet is 1 (the IP of your gateway).
How to Prevent Man In the Middle Attack?
In a web application, there are two things usually: the client and the server. The third entity that remains unnoticed most of the time is the communication channel. This channel can be a wired connection or a wireless connection. There can be one or more servers in the way forwarding your request to the destination server in the most efficient way possible. These are known as Proxy servers.
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