Most people know, or at least suspect, that it’s unwise to purchase items over a public Internet connection – but they might not know why.
One of the reasons is because of a possible ‘man-in-the-middle’ attack – a MITM attack is when someone inserts him or herself into the middle of your, and the website you are visiting’s, Internet connection and impersonates both parties in order to gain access to sensitive information like userIDs, passwords, name, address, telephone number, and credit card data.
