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Spoof, spoofs, spoofer, or spoofing may refer to:

  • Forgery of goods or documents
  • Semen, in Australian slang
  • Spoof (game), a guessing game
  • Spoofing (finance), a disruptive algorithmic-trading tactic designed to manipulate markets

Culture

  • A type of satire, specifically a parody, in which an original work is made fun of by creating a similar but altered work.
  • Spoof film (aka parody film), a cinematographic genre
  • Spoofing (anti-piracy measure), a technique to curb unlawful online downloading

Science and technology

  • Biometric spoofing, fooling a biometric identification device
  • DLL spoofing, using an insecure DLL loading routine to load a malicious DLL file

Networking and communications

  • Protocol spoofing, a technique to increase performance in data communications
  • Spoofing attack, the falsifying of data on a telecommunications network
  • ARP spoofing
  • Caller ID spoofing
  • Email spoofing
  • GNSS spoofing, involving navigation satellites
  • IP address spoofing
  • MAC spoofing
  • Referrer spoofing
  • SMS spoofing
  • Spoofed URL
  • Website spoofing

See also

  • Meaconing, the interception and rebroadcast of navigation signals
  • Replay attack, a network attack in which transmitted data is fraudulently repeated or delayed