Vulnerability Case Study: Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
Maura A. van der Linden · Auerbach Publications eBooks · 2007
Man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks are named for the attacker’s position as quite literally the man in the middle. The attacker sits between two other parties, and both of them believe they are talking to each other but, instead, they are really talking to the man in the middle, the attacker. To accomplish the classic version of this attack, the attacker must either be located between the two communicating systems or must share a network path with one of them.