Post 18, CIS 608

Man in the middle attack:

Apple’s iCloud service suffers cyber-attack in China. Some well-trained attackers tried to steel user names, passwords and private information using the man in the middle type of attack. It is well known type of attack where attackers tries to capture the information in between the web and traffic. Some blame that this attack was from Chinese government sponsored attack, but as always Chinese authorities denies the blame. Here is the link of this news in detail. 

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/10/21/apples-icloud-service-suffers-cyber-attack-in-china-putting-passwords-in-peril/