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A flaw in Microsoft Internet Explorer allows an attacker to perform a SSL Man-In-The-Middle attack without the majority of users recognizing it. In fact the only way to detect the attack is to manually compare the server name with the name stored in the certificate due to a flaw in the way IE checks HTTPS objects that are embedded into normal HTTP pages.

A flaw in Microsoft Internet Explorer allows an attacker to perform a SSL Man-In-The-Middle attack without the majority of users recognizing it. In fact the only way to detect the attack is to manually compare the server name with the name stored in the certificate due to a flaw in the way IE checks HTTPS objects that are embedded into normal HTTP pages.