Cybersecurity Project: Rogue Access Point/Man in the Middle (MITM)

Cybersecurity Project: Rogue Access Point/Man in the Middle (MITM)

Storyboard Text

  • THE END!
  • That is the story of Wilbur and the Man in the Middle. Always be safe on the internet and stay secure. Thank you for reading this comic. 
  • Once there was a man named Wilbur. He lived alone in his house only leaving it to get necessary things. 
  • One day Wilbur received a call  from  his only daughter but little did he know that someone was listening. 
  • It was the Man in the Middle who eavesdropped and stole his personal information each time. 
  • One night while he was talking to his daughter the Man in the Middle took even more of his identity without Wilbur even noticing. 
  • I can't wait to take all of his personal information so I can finally have an identity. Or maybe I could sell it to someone to make some money. 
  • After that the Man had to decrypt the two-way SSL traffic without notifying Wilbur. He did this with HTTP spoofing but there was a number of other ways. This was all the Man in the Middle had to do to get into Wilbur's personal information. 
  • The way the Man in the Middle got into his conversations was when Wilbur joined a malicious WiFi hotspot. 
  • Although if the Man in the Middle has already infiltrated your device there are still ways to get rid of it such as doing a screening to make sure that there is actually a problem and if there is you have to install malware or virus protection to get rid of the cyberattack.  
  • There are ways to prevent Man in the Middle such as not joining WiFi connections that aren't password protected, seeing if websites are unsecure, and not using public networks.