Spoofing

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)