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DNS spoofing

The act of altering or falsifying DNS information using a rogue DNS server to send false DNS replies in order to route or misdirect legitimate traffic.


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The act of altering or falsifying DNS information at a source location (i. e. , HOSTS file, caching DNS server, or authoritative DNS server) in order to route or misdirect legitimate traffic.
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A workstation in a network that is set up to use the resources of a server. Individual or process acting on behalf of an individual who makes requests of a guard or dedicated server. The client’s requests to the guard or dedicated server can involve data transfer to, from, or through the guard or dedicated server.
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An attack in which a malicious user records the traffic between a client and server. The packets sent from the client to the server are then played back or retransmitted to the server with slight variations of the time stamp and source IP address (in other words, spoofing). In some cases, this allows the malicious user to restart an old communication link with a server. Also referred to as a playback attack.
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A computer that provides a service to another computer, such as a mail server, a file server, or a news server.
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An attack used to redirect traffic to a rogue or imposter
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