Glossary of Data Communications TermsCourtesy Enterprise-Wide Computing, Inc. |
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Term:
passive threats
Definition: monitoring and/or recording data while data are being transferred over a communications facility; with release of message contents an attacker can read user data in messages; with traffic analysis the attacker can read user packet headers to identify source and destination information as well as the length and frequency of messages. See also, threats, active threats. |
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