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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.
Last update on Thursday October 16, 2008 02:43:15 PM.