Look up: spoofing

1. spoofing
   A technique used to reduce network overhead, especially in wide area networks (WAN). Some network protocols send frequent packets for management purposes. These can be routing updates or keep-alive messages. In a WAN this can introduce significant overhead, due to the typically smaller bandwidth o...
   Found on http://foldoc.org/spoofing
   
   
2. spoofing
   The trick of generating a protocol acknowledgment locally, in anticipation of a delayed acknowledge from a distant entity, with the objective of making a protocol work faster by reducing latency. A dangerous procedure unless higher layer protocols can recover. Spoofing is also a pub game in Wiltshire and elsewhere (only dangerous where played against aggressive farmers).
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib
   
   
3. Spoofing
   Term used to describe an online imposter who is pretending to be someone or something they are not. The most common form of spoofing is the forging of an email header so that the message appears to have come from someone other than the actual source. This approach is frequently used by distributors of spam.
   Found on http://www.bgateway.com/bdotg/action/glo
   
   
4. spoofing
   A method of fooling network end stations into believing that keep-alive signals have come from and return to the host. Category: Defense • a method of fooling network end stations into believing that keep-alive signals have come from and return to the host Category: News-systems and c...
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
5. spoofing
   (from the article `warning system`) ...receivers can be used to detect and locate enemy radio. Enemy radars can be located in much the same way. Messages can be intercepted. This form ...
   Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/143
   
   
6. Spoofing
   Informative that voice deception is being employed.
   Found on http://www.f-16.net/glossary-S.html