Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

man-in-the-middle attack

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.79 in modern English

Syllables: man-in-the-mid-dle at-tack
IPA

35

Scrabble Score

20

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Example Sentences

"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."

Inflected Forms

man-in-the-middle attacks (plural)

Synonyms

on-path attack

Questions

What does man-in-the-middle attack mean?: 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.

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