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Post details: Spoofing Attack

10/21/05

Permalink 12:06:27 am, Categories: Information Security, 68 words   English (US)

Spoofing Attack

Spoofing Attack

In a spoofing attack, a user appears to be someone else i.e. the attacker fakes his identity as that of alegitimate user. Beacuse of spoofing, that attacker is able to manipulate packets so they appear to come from another system or network. Thus sppofing could include spoofing an internal network IP address or return email address. Spoofing cais normally usedto perpetrate denial of service attacks.

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Comment from: Mazen [Visitor]
How to protect myself from the spoofing in general?
Permalink 10/23/05 @ 15:22

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