Spoof Explained

Spoof, spoofs, spoofer, or spoofing may refer to:

• Forgery of goods or documents
• Semen, in Australian slang
• Spoof (game), a guessing game
• Spoofing (finance), a disruptive algorithmic-trading tactic designed to manipulate markets

Culture

• A type of satire, specifically a parody, in which an original work is made fun of by creating a similar but altered work.
• Spoof film (aka parody film), a cinematographic genre
• Spoofing (anti-piracy measure), a technique to curb unlawful online downloading

Science and technology

• Biometric spoofing, fooling a biometric identification device
• DLL spoofing, using an insecure DLL loading routine to load a malicious DLL file

Networking and communications

• Protocol spoofing, a technique to increase performance in data communications
• Spoofing attack, the falsifying of data on a telecommunications network
  • ARP spoofing
  • Caller ID spoofing
  • E-mail spoofing
  • IP address spoofing
  • MAC spoofing
  • Referrer spoofing
  • SMS spoofing
    • • Spoofed URL Website spoofing

See also

• Meaconing, the interception and rebroadcast of navigation signals
• Replay attack, a network attack in which transmitted data is fraudulently repeated or delayed