COMPUTER ETHICS AND SECURITY
COMPUTER VIRUSES MALWARE AND HACKING
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Question
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What is email spoofing
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Email spoofing is the forgery of an email header so that the message appears to have originated from someone or somewhere other than the actual source.
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A virus that is designed to slow down your computer
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software that is intended to damage or disable computers and computer systems.
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a buffer overflow, or bufferoverrun, is an anomaly where a program, while writing data to a buffer, overruns the buffer’s boundary and overwrites adjacent memory locations. This is a special case of the violation of memory safety.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Email spoofing is the forgery of an email header sot that the message appears to have come from someone or somewhere other than the actual source. Spoofing is the tech equivalent of putting on a disguise to trick people into thinking you’re someone else.
Detailed explanation-2: -Email spoofing is a form of cyber attack in which a hacker sends an email that has been manipulated to seem as if it originated from a trusted source.
Detailed explanation-3: -Phishing. Almost universally, email spoofing is a gateway for phishing. Pretending to be someone the recipient knows is a tactic to get the person to click on malicious links or provide sensitive information.
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