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How the man in the middle attack works:
There are always three parties involved in the man in the middle attack. The sender, the recipient,
and the man in the middle. For the sake of this example we will say that Mike is the sender, John
is the recipient, and Elmo is the man in the middle. Mike wants to communicate over HTTPS with
John. Unknown to both Mike and John, Elmo is waiting for them to communicate so he can
intercept. Mike attempts to initiate communication with John, but the communication is
intercepted by Elmo who authenticates himself as John. Elmo, who now has everything he
needs to impersonate Mike, initiates communication with John and authenticates as Mike. There
are now actually two sessions in place. One between Mike and Elmo and another between Elmo
and John. Mike and John do not know anything is wrong because the communication between
them seems normal. In actuality all the information Mike and John are exchanging is passing
through Elmo in clear text form.
See also:
Configure MonitorMagic WebService: HTTPS
HTTP is not safe and secure
HTTPS is safe and secure
Certificates
Web site pages of the MonitorMagic Web Interface
Web interface navigation
This section details using the navigation tree of the MonitorMagic web interface. The web
interface can be accessed by specifying a URL that contains the name or IP address, plus port
number, of the computer running the MonitorMagic web service. Examples: http://kraken:81,
https://kraken:443, http://192.168.1.53:81, or https://192.168.1.53:443. In the browser, on the left
side, the MonitorMagic Web Interface shows a tree used to navigate though the various pages of
the MonitorMagic web interface.
The tree contains 3 main items at the root level:
NetWork: The network tree section. This section contains all domains, and for each
domain all computer running Windows 2000/NT/XP. If the information in this section is
not up-to-date, see Commands for more information.
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