More overseas hacking shenanigans
Weeks after Google’s Gmail service was blocked in China, Microsoft’s Outlook email service was the target of a cyberattack over the weekend, with fingers once again pointing to Chinese authorities. Online censorship watchdog Greatfire.org said that China initiated what’s known as a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack, affecting people using email clients like Outlook, Mozilla’s Thunderbird, and smartphone apps using the SMTP and IMAP protocols.
Man-in-the-middle attacks essentially entail hijacking an online connection. The culprit …read more
