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MitM Attack (5)

Editor's note: This post was originally published in June 2019 and has been revamped and updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness. The latest update was in November 2021. In a previous article we saw how we could steal an API key by performing a man in the middle (MitM) attack to intercept the HTTPS traffic between the mobile app and the API server. In this article we will learn how to mitigate this type of attack by using a technique known as certificate pinning. Read Full Story