Capture/Replay

Capture/Replay definition - hacker
A process in which a computer system attacker captures a whole stream of data to replay it later in an attempt to repeat the effects. Thus, a bank or stock sales transaction might be repeated to empty a bank account of a targeted person.

See Also: Attack; Computer.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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