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As a kid, I think people would have described me more as a goofball, or being energetic. But I always loved parodies; I loved spoofing things.
Noel Wells

Meaning of "spoofing" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SPOOFING

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPOOFING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Spoofing is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SPOOFING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of spoofing in the English dictionary

The definition of spoofing in the dictionary is the act or an instance of impersonating another person on the internet or via email.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPOOFING

spoof
spoofer
spoofery
spoofy
spook
spookery
spookier
spookiest
spookily
spookiness
spookish
spooky
spool
spooler
spoom
spoon
spoon-fed
spoon-feed
spoonbait
spoonbill

WORDS THAT END LIKE SPOOFING

ballot-box stuffing
briefing
buffing
crowd surfing
draughtproofing
golfing
huffing
in the offing
kitesurfing
roofing
rustproofing
showerproofing
sniffing
soundproofing
staffing
strafing
stuffing
surfing
waterproofing
windsurfing

Synonyms and antonyms of spoofing in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «spoofing» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SPOOFING

Find out the translation of spoofing to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of spoofing from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «spoofing» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

欺骗
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

spoofing
570 millions of speakers

English

spoofing
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्पूफिंग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بالتحايل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Подмена
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

spoofing
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্পুফিং
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

l´usurpation d´identité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Spoofing
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Spoofing
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

なりすまし
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

스푸핑
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Spoofing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giả mạo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஏமாற்றுதல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्पूफिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sızdırma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

spoofing
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

spoofing
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

підміна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

spoofing
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

spoofing
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

spoofing
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

spoofing
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

spoofing
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of spoofing

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPOOFING»

The term «spoofing» is regularly used and occupies the 57.559 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SPOOFING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about spoofing

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QUOTES WITH «SPOOFING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word spoofing.
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Noel Wells
As a kid, I think people would have described me more as a goofball, or being energetic. But I always loved parodies; I loved spoofing things.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPOOFING»

Discover the use of spoofing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to spoofing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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CheckPoint NG VPN 1/Firewall 1: Advanced Configuration and ...
Configuration. Status. When an attacker is said to be spoofing packets, he is usually bypassing the standard TCP/IP stack of the OS and building packets with a source address that is not the real address assigned to the originating workstation.
Syngress, 2003
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Today's Impact on Communication System by IP Spoofing and ...
This is changing as more people and companies are connecting to the Internet to conduct business. This thesis is on Today's Impact on Communication System by IP Spoofing and Its Detection and Prevention .
Sharmin Rashid Linta, Ridgewan Khan, 2013
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Hackers Beware
Here is a brief explanation of each: • IP spoofing. An attacker uses an IP address of another computer to acquire information or gain access. • Email spoofing. Involves spoofing from the address of an email. In essence, the email looks like it  ...
Eric Cole, 2002
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CompTIA Security+Study Guide: Exam SY0-201
A common spoofing attack that was popular for many years on early Unix and other timesharing systems involved a programmer writing a fake logon program. It would prompt the user for a user ID and password. No matter what the user typed, ...
Emmett Dulaney, 2010
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CompTIA Security+ Deluxe Study Guide: SY0-201
A common spoofing attack that was popular for many years on early Unix and other timesharing systems involved a programmer writing a fake logon program. It would prompt the user for a user ID and password. No matter what the user typed, ...
Emmett Dulaney, 2011
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Scene of the Cybercrime: Computer Forensics Handbook: ...
(Microsoft's Encarta World Dictionary 2001). Hackers use spoofed addresses to deceive other computers and fool them into thinking a message originated from a different machine.Although IP spoofing is probably the most popular, it is not the ...
Syngress, 2002
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Hacking with Kali: Practical Penetration Testing Techniques
Continued. Menu Activity Menu Kali Linux Sniffing/Spoofing Kali Linux Sniffing/ Spoofing Kali Linux Sniffing/Spoofing Kali Linux Sniffing/Spoofing Kali Linux Sniffing/Spoofing Kali Linux Sniffing/Spoofing Kali Linux Sniffing/Spoofing Kali Linux ...
James Broad, Andrew Bindner, 2013
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How to Cheat at Securing Your Network
Spoofing means providing false information about your identity in order to gain unauthorized access to systems, or, in even simpler terms, pretending to be someone you are not.These attacks can either be IP, e-mail, or Web site spoofing .
Ido Dubrawsky, 2011
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Communications and Multimedia Security: 9th IFIP TC-6 TC-11 ...
Effective Protection Against Phishing and Web Spoofing Rolf Oppliger1 and Sebastian Gajek2 1 eSECURITY Technologies, G ̈umligen, Switzerland 2 Horst G ̈ortz Institute for IT-Security, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Abstract.
Jana Dittmann, Stefan Katzenbeisser, Andreas Uhl, 2005
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Maximum Security
The latter can occur with mobile IP testing, but an attacker spoofing the source address is a more likely cause. As a closing note, if you can afford the resource overhead, you can also detect spoofing through logging procedures (even in ...
‎2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPOOFING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term spoofing is used in the context of the following news items.
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Call for tougher action against so-called nuisance call number …
The consumer watchdog Which? has called for tougher action against so-called nuisance call number spoofing. It warns that their increasing use was ... «ITV News, Jul 15»
2
Scammers Turn To Caller ID 'Spoofing' To Pose As Police
Most people know to hang up on con artists supposedly calling from the power company or the IRS, demanding money. The problem is, there's little the police ... «NPR, Jun 15»
3
URL-spoofing bug in Apple's Safari could enable hard to detect …
The latest versions of Safari for Mac OS X and iOS are vulnerable to a URL-spoofing exploit that could allow hackers to launch credible phishing attacks. «PCWorld, May 15»
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CFTC says CME directed to beef up 'spoofing' enforcement
CME should "develop strategies to identify instances of spoofing, and, as appropriate, pursue actions against perpetrators," he said, following a CFTC review of ... «Reuters, May 15»
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Navinder Sarao's 'Flash Crash' Case Highlights Problem of …
Mr. Sarao's assertion cuts to the heart of a debate rumbling through the trading community about what constitutes “spoofing” and how to distinguish between ... «Wall Street Journal, May 15»
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Why Is Spoofing Bad?
Yesterday Navinder Singh Sarao was accused of spoofing S&P 500 E-mini futures in a way that might have contributed to the May 2010 flash crash. Prosecutors ... «Bloomberg View, Apr 15»
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DoT Asked to Ban WePhone App With 'Call Spoofing' Ability
On the issue related to CLI spoofing, DoT had earlier constituted a technical committee which observed that a number of computer or mobile applications offer ... «NDTV, Mar 15»
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As 'Spoof' Trading Persists, Regulators Clamp Down
Traders call the illegal bluffing tactic “spoofing,” and they say it has long been used to manipulate prices of anything from stocks to bonds to futures. Exchanges ... «Wall Street Journal, Feb 15»
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Utah 'anti-spoofing' bill targets use of phony caller ID
David Lifferth, R-Eagle Mountain, said so-called "spoofing" services make it easy for someone to appear to be calling or texting from a fake phone number to ... «Deseret News, Feb 15»
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Watchdog calls on CME to beef up 'spoofing' detection
CME Group, the world's largest futures market operator, should continue to develop strategies to detect an illegal trading practice known as "spoofing", the US ... «South China Morning Post, Nov 14»

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