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Snooping traffic is really useful today?Snooping traffic is really useful today?Posted Sep 30, 2010 14:17 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)Parent article: BruCON: How to take over the world by breaking into embedded systems Another possibility is to break into the user's router and snoop on the network traffic: by getting passwords for their online banking accounts, PayPal, or eBay, an attacker can get access to the user's money. When was the last time you were expected to type your credit card number not over HTTPS?
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Snooping traffic is really useful today? Posted Oct 1, 2010 6:03 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
HTTPS is very prone to MITM attacks. If I can reflash your router, there's a very good chance that I can snoop your HTTPS, especially if you don't understand X.509 certs.
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