man in the middle attack

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2 Jan 2009 23:17 EST

Two updates in one day?! Crazy! Anyway, I thought this was too interesting not to post. Here's a man-in-the-middle attack out in the wild. The person actually thought it was a Firefox bug, because of all the invalid SSL certificates they got. After some investigating - yup, she was getting haxxed.

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