man-in-the-middle attack
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[edit]Noun
[edit]man-in-the-middle attack (plural man-in-the-middle attacks)
- (computing, security) A security attack in which someone intercepts the communication between a device and the server it is connected to, simulating the device to the server and simulating the server to the device.
- 2014, Emmett Dulaney, Security, page 324:
- Man-in-the-middle attacks clandestinely place something (such as a piece of software or a rouge router) between a server and the user about which neither the server's administrators nor the user is aware.
- 2016, Ho-won Kim, Dooho Choi, Information Security Applications, page 70:
- In the general man-in-the-middle attack, the role of E in a tag access operation is to fake and forward data.
- 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 76:
- It had taken Robert Lemoine barely twenty minutes to execute the man-in-the-middle attack.