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Man in the middle attack

Latest update on Thursday 16 October 2008 à 09:43 by Jean-François Pillou.

Man in the middle attack

The "man in the middle" attack, sometimes abbreviated MITM, is an attack scenario where an attacker monitors a communication between two parties and falsifies the exchanges to impersonate one of the parties.

Most "man in the middle attacks involve monitoring the network with a tool called a sniffer.

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