350-701 Security Concepts Practice Question
An attacker uses ARP spoofing to intercept traffic between two devices on the same subnet. After successfully becoming a man-in-the-middle, the attacker can then perform which further attack to downgrade HTTPS connections to HTTP?
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SSL stripping
SSL stripping is a MITM attack that downgrades HTTPS connections to HTTP by intercepting the initial HTTPS request and maintaining a plaintext connection with the client.
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SSL stripping
Why this is correct
SSL stripping downgrades secure connections to plaintext.
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Session hijacking
Why it's wrong here
Session hijacking steals session cookies, but does not inherently downgrade encryption.
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DNS cache poisoning
Why it's wrong here
DNS cache poisoning redirects traffic to malicious sites but does not directly downgrade HTTPS.
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Typosquatting
Why it's wrong here
Typosquatting relies on users mistyping URLs, not active MITM.
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