Meaning of man-in-the-middle attack | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

Examples

“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.”

“In the general man-in-the-middle attack, the role of E in a tag access operation is to fake and forward data.”

“It had taken Robert Lemoine barely twenty minutes to execute the man-in-the-middle attack.”

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