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IP address spoofing is most frequently used in denial-of-service attacks, [2] where the objective is to flood the target with an overwhelming volume of traffic, and the attacker does not care about receiving responses to the attack packets. Packets with spoofed IP addresses are more difficult to filter since each spoofed packet appears to come ...
The man behind one of America's biggest 'fake news' websites is a former BBC worker from London whose mother writes many of his stories. Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 35, runs YourNewsWire.com, the source of scores of dubious news stories, including claims that the Queen had threatened to abdicate if the UK voted against Brexit.
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
Bogon filtering is the practice of filtering bogons, which are bogus (fake) IP addresses of a computer network.Bogons include IP packets on the public Internet that contain addresses that are not in any range allocated or delegated by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) or a delegated regional Internet registry (RIR) and allowed for public Internet use.
Criminals prefer to sell counterfeits on the Internet for many reasons. They can hide behind the anonymity of the Internet—with the Dark Web even their IP addresses can be hidden. The Internet gives them the reach to sell to consumers globally—outside of the national limits of law enforcement.
Sock puppet account. In Internet terms, sock puppets are online identities used for disguised activity by the operator. A sock puppet is a false online identity used for deceptive purposes. [1] The term originally referred to a hand puppet made from a sock. Sock puppets include online identities created to praise, defend, or support a person or ...
Smurf attack. A Smurf attack is a distributed denial-of-service attack in which large numbers of Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets with the intended victim's spoofed source IP are broadcast to a computer network using an IP broadcast address. [1] Most devices on a network will, by default, respond to this by sending a reply to ...
Tor, short for The Onion Router, [6] is free and open-source software for enabling anonymous communication. [7] It directs Internet traffic via a free, worldwide volunteer overlay network that consists of more than seven thousand relays. [8] Using Tor makes it more difficult to trace a user's Internet activity.