This paper is a summary of a security
research conducted by Checkmarx’s
Security Research Team in order to raise
awareness to the dangers in popular children’s
applications.
It will demonstrate a Man in the Middle attack
on the Android version of three highly popular
mobile games in order to shed a light on the
attack implementations and how best to avoid
them.
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