Teso says that ACARS still has virtually no authentication features to prevent spoofed commands.
Socially engineered spoofed email messages are used to lure employees to compromised websites where their machines are infected.
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This same technology is at work today blowing away billions of spoofed messages from banks and commerce sites in major ISPs.
Users struggling to get back online then re-connect to the spoofed access point, allowing the attacker to spy on their communications.
Those emails contained links to the spoofed Gmail sites, which harvested the usernames and passwords of anyone fooled by their realistic appearance.
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Like e-mail spam with a spoofed identity, the Related Post shows up in a newsfeed right under the user's name and picture.
The court points out in its opinion that those are easily spoofed, and that the prosecution needed to go farther to prove it was hers.
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That critical relationship was spoofed in the movie "Talladega Nights, " in a pre-meal prayer delivered by fictional NASCAR driver Ricky Bobby, played by actor Will Ferrell.
Spoofed IP addresses and domain names also can be misleading.
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Such was the case recently when The Yes Men spoofed GE in and effort to draw attention to the fact that the company did not pay U.S. taxes this year.
It can, definitively and without error, identify spoofed emails like the fake FedEx notice I had, or the fake LinkedIn messages, IRS notifications, friend requests etc. that weave their way into all of our inboxes every day.
Google credits the discovery of the scheme in part to the blog Contagio, where a detailed analysis of the scam including images of the spoofed emails and the fake login page above were posted in February.
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So, moving on, their second step is to send a spoofed e-mail (one that looks like it comes from a trusted friend or client) to one of your key employees or partners and the e-mail includes an infected attachment.
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It took less than 24 hours for Matt Blaze, a computer science professor at the University of Pennsylvania who audited voting systems for California and Ohio in 2007, to start pointing out the problems with that workaround: Unencrypted emails can be spoofed or tampered with.
And both researchers say that ADS-B lacks both the encryption necessary to keep those communications private and the authentication necessary to prevent spoofed communications from mixing with real ones, potentially allowing hackers to fabricate messages and even entire aircraft with radio tools that are cheaper and more accessible than ever before.
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