Learn What Spoofing Is and Prevent It

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Scams & Swindles: Phishing, Spoofing, ID Theft, Nigerian Advance Schemes Investment Frauds: How to Recognize And Avoid Rip-Offs In The Internet AgeJonathan Hassell of the Computer World wrote a tip on preventing spoofing. It is necessary for us to learn what is spoofing and how it is done, because knowledge on it will lead us to prevent our system from this kind of attack.

Accoridng to him, spoofing is a slang term of fooling, and there are many types of this attack:

There are several different types of spoofing that occur, but most relevant to networking is the Internet Protocol (IP) spoof. Most types of spoofing have a common theme: a nefarious user transmits packets with an IP address indicating that the packets are originating from another, trusted machine.

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Posted by User ImageSELaplana, 9 June 2006 at Information, Security (No. of Views: 1471)

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