man-in-the-middle attack

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man-in-the-middle attack (plural man-in-the-middle attacks)

  1. (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.