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Why One-time Passwords Suck For MITM Attacks

whitehartstag writes "Black Hat 08 disclosed several SSL VPN and DNS vulnerabilities that caused several people to sit up and take notice. Some of these new exploits performed a brilliant Man-In-The-Middle attack on SSL VPN tunnels. This article walks you... ...full story at slashdot

from slashdot on Mon, Aug 18 2008

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