Software Engineering / November 13, 2023

Eavesdropping on Android: A Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Attack

Android allows developers to configure network security settings to have their apps transmit unencrypted data over the insecure HTTP rather than the default secure HTTPS that implements encryption through TLS protocol. What a developer needs is to have a line like this: android:networkSecurityConfig=”@xml/network_security_config” in the app’s AndroidManifest.xml file that specifies the location of the network security […]

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