“Very entertaining.”
Entertaining full talk on HTTPS attacks
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Relevant part starts here this video Although for anyone interested in HTTPS, I'd recommend watching the whole thing. Very entertaining.
Defeating Ssl Using Sslstrip (Marlinspike Blackhat)
61K views · Mar 13, 2012 · 1:09:16 · 3 HN recommenders · 7 mentions · discussed 2014–2018
Moxie Marlinspike's Black Hat talk presenting sslstrip, which defeats SSL in practice by intercepting the http-to-https redirect.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN recommends it as an entertaining talk and the original source on the stripping attack that motivated HSTS.
“Very entertaining.”HN comment, 2017
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“Tricks for Defeating SSL in Practice - Moxie Marlinspike”
Recommended talk on defeating SSL in practice
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This guide is very hand-wavey. Tor alone is a poor operational security strategy; using nikto and unix-privesc-check does not a hacker make. This may be a decent place to begin one's inquiry, but don't let it end here too. Here are some talks I recommend: Tricks for Defeating SSL in Practice - Moxie Marlinspike this video OPSEC: Because Jail is for wuftpd - thegrugq link
“Moxie has an entertaining talk”
Entertaining talk on certificate attacks
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We don't have humans in the loop for issuing certificate; this can and has been exploited for fun and profit, with fun attacks like getting a cert for "citibank.com\0.mydomain.com" which used to trick the C strcmp in most browser certificate checking routines. Moxie has an entertaining talk: this video Your problem would be getting people to "thecitibank.com." Chrome, Firefox, and GMail would all eventually figure out it was a phishing site and warn users about clicking through to it.
“Perhaps one of the techniques discussed here”
Possible techniques behind public WiFi attacks
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Perhaps one of the techniques discussed here: this video ? Or, as this was published a couple of days ago, it might have utilized POODLE, or even BEAST in unmitigated cases. But yeah, I'd also believe user error in some cases.
“was presented by Moxie Marlinspike at Black Hat in 2009”
Original sslstrip presentation at Black Hat
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If it helps, the attack you're describing is called sslstrip and was presented by Moxie Marlinspike at Black Hat in 2009: this video (code here: link ) As others have mentioned, the current best defence against this is HSTS (and, in particular, HSTS preloading). I think the best explanation of it is here: link
“It can be very powerful if done maliciously”
Demonstrates the http-to-https redirect interception attack
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> How viable is the interception a http-to-https redirect page? It can be very powerful if done maliciously: this video (This kind of attack is a primary motivation for the existence of HSTS.)
“The only effective way to get guaranteed security is with HSTS preloading.”
History of the stripping attack that HSTS preloading prevents
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History lesson incoming: this video The only effective way to get guaranteed security is with HSTS preloading. Anything short of that leaves you vulnerable to the linked attack, which dates way back to 2012.