This interactive lesson defines a spoofing attack as an attack in which a hacker successfully masquerades as another person by falsifying data to gain an illegitimate advantage. The lesson explains four types of spoofing attacks: ARP spoofing attacks, DNS server spoofing attacks, IP address spoofing attacks, and MAC address spoofing attacks.

This interactive lesson was made possible by funding from National Science Foundation Grant # DUE 1601612 at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, New Jersey – PI Mike Qaissaunee, with contributions from Dr. John Sands & Susan Sands of Moraine Valley Community College and Jaime Mahoney of Bunker Hill Community College.

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