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Definition - What Does Mean?: Spoofing

This document defines spoofing and provides examples of how it is commonly carried out. Spoofing involves communicating from an unknown source while disguising the origin to appear as someone known to the recipient. Email spoofing is easy to do since core SMTP protocols do not authenticate senders, allowing impersonation. Spoofed emails often request personal information under false pretenses of verification in order to steal identities or accounts. They may also contain malware to damage computers if opened.

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Definition - What Does Mean?: Spoofing

This document defines spoofing and provides examples of how it is commonly carried out. Spoofing involves communicating from an unknown source while disguising the origin to appear as someone known to the recipient. Email spoofing is easy to do since core SMTP protocols do not authenticate senders, allowing impersonation. Spoofed emails often request personal information under false pretenses of verification in order to steal identities or accounts. They may also contain malware to damage computers if opened.

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Definition - What does Spoofing mean?


Spoofing, in general, is a fraudulent ( unjustifiably claiming) or malicious practice in which
communication is sent from an unknown source disguised as a source known to the receiver.
Spoofing is most prevalent in communication mechanisms that lack a high level of security.

Techopedia explains Spoofing


Email spoofing is one of the best known spoofs. Since core SMTP fails to offer
authentication, it is simple to forge and impersonate emails. Spoofed emails may
request personal information and may appear to be from a known sender. Such
emails request the recipient to reply with an account number for verification. The
email spoofer then uses this account number for identity theft purposes, such as
accessing the victim's bank account, changing contact details and so on.

The attacker (or spoofer) knows that if the recipient receives a spoofed email that
appears to be from a known source, it is likely to be opened and acted upon. So a
spoofed email may also contain additional threats like Trojans or other viruses.
These programs can cause significant computer damage by triggering unexpected
activities, remote access, deletion of files and more.

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