November 14, 2009, 12:59PM
iPhone, Android, Others Get Man in the Middle Treatment
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Security researchers have released a paper detailing successful man-in-the-middle attacks against several smartphones. The SSL enabled log in sessions on the tested, Nokia N95, HTC Tilt, Android G1 and iPhone 3GS devices was sniffed using the publicly available SSLstrip tool, with the attack taking place over insecure Wi-Fi network, now prevalent literally everywhere. Read the full article. [ZDNet]
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SSL Strip is highly affective.