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MITM

MITM is the initialism of man-in-the-middle attack.

MITM is the initialism of meet-in-the-middle attack.

Meaning of man-in-the-middle attack

Noun

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

  1. 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.
    • 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.2014, Emmett Dulaney, Security, page 324
    Synonyms:
    on-path attack

Forms of MITM

pluralMITMs

Questions about MITM

What is MITM the initialism of?
MITM is the initialism of man-in-the-middle attack.

Words near MITM in the dictionary

  1. mitiphylline
  2. mitis
  3. mititei
  4. mitkal
  5. mitkals
  6. MITM
  7. mitmachen
  8. mitmita
  9. MITMs
  10. mitnagdim
  11. mitnaged

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