{"id":151,"date":"2004-04-27T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-27T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=151"},"modified":"2007-12-30T16:21:48","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T00:21:48","slug":"nanny-in-the-middle-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"Nanny-in-the-Middle Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\"Man-in-the-Middle\" attack's occur in the \"real\" world, not just in computer security. In this case, it was a Nanny-in-the-Middle&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong> Security Notes from All Over: Man-in-the-Middle Attack<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>(from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/crypto-gram-0404.html#6\">http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/crypto-gram-040<wbr><\/wbr>4.html#6<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The phrase \"man-in-the-middle attack\" is used to describe a computer attack<br \/>\nwhere the adversary sits in the middle of a communications channel<br \/>\nbetween two people, fooling them both. It is an important attack, and<br \/>\ncauses all sorts of design considerations in communications protocols.<\/p>\n<p>But it's a real-life attack, too. Here's a story of a woman who posts an ad<br \/>\nrequesting a nanny. When a potential nanny responds, she asks for<br \/>\nreferences for a background check. Then she places another ad, using<br \/>\nthe reference material as a fake identity. She gets a job with the good<br \/>\nreferences &#8212; they're real, although for another person &#8212; and then<br \/>\nrobs the family who hires her. And then she repeats the process.<\/p>\n<p>Look what's going on here. She inserts herself in the middle of a<br \/>\ncommunication between the real nanny and the real employer, pretending<br \/>\nto be one to the other. The nanny sends her references to someone she<br \/>\nassumes to be a potential employer, not realizing that it is a<br \/>\ncriminal. The employer receives the references and checks them, not<br \/>\nrealizing that they don't actually belong to the person who is sending<br \/>\nthem.<\/p>\n<p>It's a nasty piece of crime.<\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco Chronicle carried <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2004\/03\/18\/BAG6S5MUEO1.DTL\" title=\"18 March 2004 story\">the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\"Man-in-the-Middle\" attack's occur in the \"real\" world, not just in computer security. In this case, it was a Nanny-in-the-Middle&#8230; Security Notes from All Over: Man-in-the-Middle Attack (from http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/crypto-gram-0404.html#6) The phrase \"man-in-the-middle attack\" is used to describe a computer attack where the adversary sits in the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=151\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-risk","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}