Sunday, August 22, 2010

Spoofing

Spoofing is one of technique or attack that been successfully done in order to gain illegal advantage. They are mainly used for masquerade people to justify falsifying data. Spoofing is consider to be key factor in network security people are concerned with. Spoofing are done by

Men in Middle Attack:
               In Men in Middle Attack, while two client transfer information when intruder intrude and acts to be authorized user from one other by gaining all vital information.


Url Spoofing and Phishing:
               The Url spoofing and Phishing are techniques which been implemented by using fake website which gives feel like original one. The Url spoofing uses browser bugs and poisons DNS which makes to have fake Url in address bar which re-directs to fake site.

You can read more about phishing technique(click here).

Caller ID Spoofing:
                In older technologies while calling from mobile or land line phone or Voip phone caller number will be displayed. But newer technologies helps to fake callers number which caller want to display to others, So this had led  many people to  suffer.

Email ID Spoofing:
                 This technique mainly been used by spammers. The sender can spoof senders mail id and send mails. Thereby any harmful data can be made to intrude into organization or enterprise.

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