Interceptación

interceptar

Apoderarse de algo antes de que llegue a su destino.

DRAE. Diccionario de la Lengua Española.

(en) interception

(I) A type of threat action whereby an unauthorized entity directly accesses sensitive data while the data is traveling between authorized sources and destinations. (See: unauthorized disclosure.)

Usage: This type of threat action includes the following subtypes:

·         "Theft": Gaining access to sensitive data by stealing a shipment of a physical medium, such as a magnetic tape or disk, that holds the data.

·         "Wiretapping (passive)": Monitoring and recording data that is flowing between two points in a communication system. (See: wiretapping.)

·         "Emanations analysis": Gaining direct knowledge of communicated data by monitoring and resolving a signal that is emitted by a system and that contains the data but was not intended to communicate the data. (See: emanation.)

[RFC4949:2007]

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