Shocking news reveals that the Secure Socket Layer often called as SSL is vulnerable to various attacks on the web. Security experts have demonstrated the vulnerability with various examples which can cause devastating consequences. The first phase for a hacker is to succeed in a man in the middle attack which is quite a difficult task.

The SSL authentication gap bug is the mode of exploit for an attacker to gain access to a network. The demonstration revealed how the Authentication flaw still remains a challenge. First the attacker sends a data that causes the SSL server to reply with a redirect message which in turn is sent to the Web Browser to another page. The attacker then takes the help of the redirect message to move the victim to unsecured connection where all the modification to the web pages can be written by the hacker before they are sent to the victim.