Question

What are man in the middle attacks?

(a) Users are forced to use a second server which causes the attack

(b) Users are forced to divert to a fake site where the attack takes place

(c) Users are fooled by similar GUI and data is extracted from them.

(d) None of the mentioned

The question was asked by my school principal while I was bunking the class.

The query is from Application Security in portion Application Design and Development of RDBMS

Answer 1

The correct option is (b) Users are forced to divert to a fake site where the attack takes place

Best explanation: Man in the middle attacks are those attacks in which the users are forced to divert to a fake site where the attack takes place. The fake site is then used to obtain the data from the user.