Spoofing

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

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1. Faking the sending address of a transmission to gain illegal entry into a secure system. Impersonating, masquerading, piggybacking, and mimicking are forms of spoofing. 2. The deliberate inducement of a user or resource to take incorrect action.

polysemous

Classifications

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Entity Type

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Information Class

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Spoofings
possessive: Spoofing's
pluralpossessive: Spoofings'

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