Editing Spoofing attack (section)

{{Short description|Cyber attack in which a person or program successfully masquerades as another by falsifying data}}
In the context of [[information security]], and especially [[network security]], a '''spoofing attack''' is a situation in which a person or program successfully identifies as another by falsifying [[data]], to gain an illegitimate advantage.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Jindal|first1=K.|last2=Dalal|first2=S.|last3=Sharma|first3=K. K.|title=2014 Fourth International Conference on Advanced Computing & Communication Technologies |chapter=Analyzing Spoofing Attacks in Wireless Networks |date=February 2014|chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6783487|pages=398–402|doi=10.1109/ACCT.2014.46|isbn=978-1-4799-4910-6|s2cid=15611849}}</ref>