Idioms

spoofing attack

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spoofing attack

The practice of stealing, or attempting to steal, personal information over the phone or on the internet by pretending to be someone or something that legitimately requires such details. We've gotten reports of an increasing number of spoofing attacks being made against our customers recently. Remember, we will never ask you for your password under any circumstances, whether on the phone or by email. The use of the so-called dark web makes the culprits behind these spoofing attacks nearly impossible to catch.
See also: attack, spoof
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A spoofing attack occurs when a person with no authority tries to masquerade an authorized person by falsifying the data captured by acquisition sensors [5].
Next, by combining multiscale, local, phase quantization representation, the robustness of the spoofing attack detector can be further improved.
Unfortunately, in 2013, Kumari and Khan [13] pointed out that Chen et al.'s scheme cannot withstand user impersonation attack, server spoofing attack, and offline password guessing attack.
An ARP spoofing attack is an attack in which the media access control (MAC) address of a computer is masqueraded as that of another.
If a service request lacks the security header--for example, a spoofing attack with an authentic login but no accompanying header--it will be denied.
Unlike a spoofing attack, both the user and the GPS receiver understand that satellite signals from space are not being received.
Moreover, our proposal can avoid the server spoofing attack since the verification process relies on the server's private key.
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