Word info

MITM

Noun

Meaning

(computer security) Initialism of man-in-the-middle attack: Computer network crime where the criminal passes on messages between two communicating parties without them knowing it. The victims e.g. think they use a secure connection, but they don't know that this connection leads to the 'man in the middle' who relays the messages.

(cryptography) Initialism of meet-in-the-middle attack: Cryptographic attack that attempts to find a value in each of the ranges and domains of the composition of two functions such that the forward mapping of one through the first function is the same as the inverse image of the other through the second function

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Examples

A MITM attack can work like this:1) User inputs username and pw into spurious site. Source: Internet

He estimates 80 percent of those BLE smart devices are vulnerable to MitM attacks. Source: Internet

The difference between an aLTEr attack and a classic IMSI catcher is that IMSI catchers perform passive MitM attacks to determine a target's geo-location, while aLTEr can actually modify what the user is seeing on his device. Source: Internet

However, the attack is still viable because the FairPlay MITM attack only requires these apps to have been available in the App Store once. Source: Internet

Last week, NowSecure security researchers revealed that nearly 600m Samsung mobile devices are vulnerable to a type of MitM attack. Source: Internet

MITMf is an excellent tool created to make MitM attacks as simple as possible. Source: Internet

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