Spoofing Glossary

Browse 6 spoofing terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

6 Spoofing Terms

ARP Spoofing
The act of sending forged ARP messages on a local network to impersonate another device's IP-to-MAC mapping. ARP spoofing is often used to perform...
Email Impersonation
A tactic where an attacker makes an email appear to come from a trusted person, brand, or internal source in order to deceive recipients. It may involve...
Fabrication Attack
An attack that injects forged data, events, messages, or telemetry into a system so defenders or automated processes act on false information. Fabrication...
Facial Recognition Security
The security of systems that identify or verify people by comparing facial features against stored templates. It includes model accuracy, liveness detection,...
Impersonation
The act of pretending to be another user, service, or trusted entity in order to gain access, trust, or influence. Impersonation can occur through stolen...
Packet Spoofing
The crafting of network packets with falsified source or other header fields to disguise origin, bypass simple trust assumptions, or aid reflection and evasion...

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