Neowin News Feed for: Mitm

Linux documentation switches to HTTPS to boost security

Paul Hill — Sun, 26 Jul 2020 04:50:01 +0000

The Linux kernel developers have switched links in the documentation over to HTTPS. The move aims to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks against kernel developers, luckily no such attacks have occurred. Read more...

Mozilla and Google stop Kazakh government from intercepting traffic

Paul Hill — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:40:01 +0000

Mozilla and Google have taken measures to invalidate a root CA certificate from being used by the Kazakh government in Firefox and Chrome to intercept users' secure HTTPS connections to websites. Read more...

Google will block sign-ins from embedded browser frameworks starting from June

Jay Bonggolto — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 08:52:01 +0000

Google has announced that it will begin blocking any sign-in attempt from embedded browser frameworks from June as part of an effort to protect users from man-in-the-middle attacks. Read more...

Gogo Inflight Internet is intentionally issuing fake SSL certificates

Steven Johns — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 03:10:01 +0000

SSL certificates exist to increase security and prevent snooping on your browsing sessions. Gogo believes you shouldn't have that and appears to be intentionally performing MITM attacks on its users. Read more...