Word info

spoofed

Speech parts

1. spoofed - Adjective

2. spoofed - Verb

Meaning

Parodied.

(of an email) Made to appear to have come from someone other than the real sender.

spoofed

simple past and past participle of spoof

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

My greatest thrill was the day Mad magazine spoofed 'Ghost.' Jerry Zucker

Because the source IP addresses can be trivially spoofed, an attack could come from a limited set of sources, or may even originate from a single host. Source: Internet

A new security testing tool that enables email messages to be faked or spoofed, even if the recipients are protected by best practices, has garnered some strong criticism from email security advocates. Source: Internet

Because this reply is sent to an IP address that was spoofed by an attacker, this reply will be discarded, or dropped by the receiver. Source: Internet

A third-party administrator for the fund mistakenly wired nearly $5.9 million, or 64% of the total capital, out of the fund based on a spoofed email purporting to come from a managing partner at the fund. Source: Internet

I heard about a phishing email attack on American Express that spoofed top-level domains (TLDs), including the. Source: Internet

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