Cyber Attacks

Cyber attacks are more dangerous thing in the modern world. So we should know about that. normally cyber attack has 2 type of attack those are active and passive attacks. both attacks use man in the middle (MITM) attack methods.

What is the man in the middle??

A man-in-the-middle attack is a type of cyber attack where a malicious actor inserts him/herself into a conversation between two parties, impersonates both parties and gains access to information that the two parties were trying to send to each other. A man-in-the-middle attack allows a malicious actor to intercept, send and receive data meant for someone else, or not meant to be sent at all, without either outside party knowing until it is too late. Man-in-the-middle attacks can be abbreviated in many ways, including MITM, MitM, MiM or MIM

What is active attack??
 Meaning of  Active attack malicious actor can change the valuable things which are trough the conversation between two parties. 

What is passive attacks??
It's mean malicious actor can see the information but he cant change the information or data.