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Web Application Attacks & Post-Exploitation
Question
A user is asking for an upgrade to Internet Explorer, because he constantly gets annoying windows popping up whenever he visits his online banking site from his laptop when on the corporate network. He claims that after clicking 'Yes' in the message boxes that pop up he is able to continue working. When he takes his laptop home, he does not get these same pop ups. What is a possible explanation for this, and what should the administrator do?
Options
- AIt is likely that someone is spoofing DNS and running a Monkey-in-the-Middle attack to spy on the
- BIt is likely that the user's browser has not been patched against the latest SSL vulnerabilities. The
- CIt is likely that the user's machine has been compromised and is being used as an ARP spoofing
- DIt is likely that the machine has been infected with a backdoor which has taken over control of the
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Topics
#DNS spoofing#MITM attack#SSL certificate warnings#network interception