Google announced that it's upcoming chrome 63 browser will be equipped with new security feature that will alert users of 'man in the middle' attacks aka MITM in which the hacker intercepts communication between two systems.
The developer behind this technology is Sasha Perigo who announced the news on her twitter account.
“Excited to announce my intern project is launching in @GoogleChrome M63! New error pages to help users struggling with MITM software,”
Excited to announce my intern project is launching in @GoogleChrome M63! New error pages to help users struggling with MITM software. 🔐✨ pic.twitter.com/qItF3T1K1z— Sasha Perigo (@sashaperigo) September 8, 2017
We define man in the middle software as software that intercepts and rewrites a user's SSL connection including antiviruses and firewalls.— Sasha Perigo (@sashaperigo) September 8, 2017
Users who try and fail to set up MITM software repeatedly see SSL errors. This error page is designed to give them info about how to fix it.— Sasha Perigo (@sashaperigo) September 8, 2017
The name "BadSSL Antivirus" on the screenshot above will be swapped out with the name of the relevant software.— Sasha Perigo (@sashaperigo) September 8, 2017
To see the feature today, launch Chrome Canary with the flag --enable-features=MITMSoftwareInterstitial and go to https://t.co/UjXglRB26T.— Sasha Perigo (@sashaperigo) September 8, 2017
This error will only trigger due to misconfigured software. Fishy behavior will result in the normal SSL error page.— Sasha Perigo (@sashaperigo) September 10, 2017
We check the error code the certificate validator threw, and check fields on the missing cert to see if it's MITM software.— Sasha Perigo (@sashaperigo) September 10, 2017
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