IP spoofing

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IP spoofing

Inserting the IP address of an authorized user into the transmission of an unauthorized user in order to gain illegal access to a computer system. Routers and other firewall implementations can be programmed to identify this discrepancy. See firewall.

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[43] CERT, "TCP SYN flooding and IP spoofing attacks," CA-199621, CERT Advisory, 2000.

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In Section 2, we review the existing work in DDoS and IP spoofing mitigation.

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The group also noted that Skype and Facebook gave IP numbers to states, advising to use IP spoofing proxy servers.

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Some spammers, however, engage in IP spoofing, forging the headers in their e-mails, or they access computers over the Internet that are unprotected by firewall software and turn them into zombies, sending out spare from them.

Deciphering e-mail headers

* IP spoofing: a technique used to gain unauthorized access to computers, whereby hackers send messages to a computer with a deceived IP address as if it were coming from a trusted host.