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What is Spoofing?
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Shumaila Aslam Information Security BSc Combined Honours Computer Science Spoofing Spoofing: E-mail, server..... How it is done, how it is detected, how to defend against it. What is Spoofing? Definition spoof (DECEIVE) [Show phonetics] verb [I or T] US INFORMAL to try to make someone believe in something that is not true, as a joke (from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary) Web spoofing is the act of secretly tricking your Web browser into talking to a different Web server than you intend. How? By attacking the DNS (domain name system) that maps the "www.site.com" in a URL to a network address, or by modifying a Web page to have a bad URL, or by tricking your browser as it interprets CGI data, JavaScript, etc. After your browser has been fooled, the spoofed Web server can send you fake Web pages or prompt you to provide personal information such as your login ID, password, or even credit card or bank account...
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