Cyberspace: Jurnal Pendidikan Teknologi Informasi
Vol 2, No 2 (2018)

MAN-IN-THE-MIDDLE-ATTACK: UNDERSTANDING IN SIMPLE WORDS

Avijit Mallik (Dept. of ME, RUET)



Article Info

Publish Date
10 Jan 2019

Abstract

These days cyber-attack is a serious criminal offense and it is a hot debated issue moreover. A man-in-the-middle-attack is a kind of cyberattack where an unapproved outsider enters into an online correspondence between two users, remains escaped the two parties. The malware that is in the middle-attack often monitors and changes individual/classified information that was just realized by the two users. A man-in-the-middle-attack as a protocol is subjected to an outsider inside the system, which can access, read and change secret information without keeping any tress of manipulation. This issue is intense, and most of the cryptographic systems without having a decent authentication security are threatened to be hacked by the malware named ‘men-in-the-middle-attack’ (MITM/MIM). This paper essentially includes the view of understanding the term of ‘men-in-the-middle-attack’; the current work is mainly emphasized to accumulate related data/information in a single article so that it can be a reference to conduct research further on this topic at college/undergraduate level. This paper likewise audits most cited research and survey articles on ‘man-in-the-middle-attack’ recorded on 'Google Scholar'. The motivation behind this paper is to help the readers for understanding and familiarizing the topic 'man-in-the-middle attack'.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

cyberspace

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Education Other

Description

Cyberspace: Jurnal Pendidikan Teknologi Informasi is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that will consider any original scientific article that expands the field of information technology education and various other related applied computer sciences themes. The journal publishes articles of ...