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Running Head: SPOOFING OF USER IDENTITY Spoofing of User Identity Student’s Name Institution’s Affiliation Date 1 SPOOFING OF USER IDENTITY 2 According to Information Technology (IT) and to be more specific in the area of network security, spoofing attack refers to a state in which a program or even a person manages to masquerade as another through the falsifying of information with the intention of acquiring an illegal advantage (Felten et al., 1997). In other words, the spoofing individual lies through authentication by pretending to be the actual user, and from this, the intruder can obtain a lot of sensitive data that can even be used access one’s bank account. They could even manage to steal passwords, and access other personal information deemed private. Spoofing is of many forms, and it includes URL (uniform resource locator), caller ID, email and GPS spoof attacks (S ...
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