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Message-id: <4B0BD9B9.8309.6E2E15B4@nick.virus-l.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:03:53 +1300
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick@...us-l.demon.co.uk>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: New Paper: MitM Attacks against the chipTAN
 comfort Online Banking System

Thierry Zoller wrote:

<<snip>>
> For  sake  of  allowing  proper risk  assessment by technically less
> trained persons - one should coin a better term than classical mitm -
> but maybe I am mistaken? what about MITMa (man in the machine)

In my experience, "Man in the Browser" (or MitB) is the phrase that 
this is commonly known as in the anti-malware and phishing communities 
(regardless that some of the components involved are not "in the 
browser", per se, at all).



Regards,

Nick FitzGerald


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