(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, page324:
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, page70:
In the generalman-in-the-middle attack, the role ofE in a tag access operation is to fake and forward data.
2023, Eleanor Catton,Birnam Wood, page76:
It had taken Robert Lemoine barely twenty minutes to execute theman-in-the-middle attack.
