{"id":1219,"date":"2017-11-13T11:12:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T11:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comodosslstore.com\/blog\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2023-06-21T11:45:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T11:45:15","slug":"what-is-ssl-stripping-beginners-guide-to-ssl-strip-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comodosslstore.com\/blog\/what-is-ssl-stripping-beginners-guide-to-ssl-strip-attacks.html","title":{"rendered":"What is SSL Stripping? A Beginner\u2019s Guide to SSL Strip Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\nUnderstand the con trick that is SSL Stripping or HTTP Downgrade\n\n\n\nSSL Stripping or an SSL Downgrade Attack is an attack used to circumvent the security enforced by SSL certificates on HTTPS-enabled websites. In other words, SSL stripping is a technique that downgrades your connection from secure HTTPS to insecure HTTP and exposes you to eavesdropping and data manipulation. Think of it as wiretapping, but a bit more technical. When your web browser comes into contact with a web server, the first <a href=\"https:\/\/comodosslstore.com\/blog\/what-is-ssl-stripping-beginners-guide-to-ssl-strip-attacks.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understand the con trick that is SSL Stripping or HTTP Downgrade SSL Stripping or an SSL Downgrade Attack is an attack used to circumvent the security enforced by SSL certificates on HTTPS-enabled websites. In other words, SSL stripping is a technique that downgrades your connection from secure HTTPS to insecure HTTP and exposes you to eavesdropping and data manipulation. Think of it as wiretapping, but a bit more technical. When your web browser comes into contact with a web server, the first Continue Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ssl-certificates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Aeyw-jF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/comodosslstore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/sslstripping.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comodosslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comodosslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comodosslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comodosslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comodosslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comodosslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comodosslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comodosslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comodosslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comodosslstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}