Spoofing
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Spoofing:
- Faking the sending address of a transmission in order to gain illegal entry into a secure system.
- Making a website seem authentic to collect passwords and login names.
Added 4/4/2010 by Stephanie Dike: Spoofing is a technique wherein malicious internet users pretend to be a person or a resource that they are not. Malicious users typically commit spoofing for several reasons including:
1. to gain access to a resource or website they could not otherwise access
2. to manipulate unsuspecting users to give them account login credentials
3. to embarrass or cause other damage to a company or person by committing negative acts while masquerading as them (for example sending virus-ridden emails while masquerading as a Symantec employee)