What would your answer be?

You are working as a technician at Domain.com. Your boss has heard of techniques to make data appear to come from somewhere other than the originating point and wants to know what this is called. What would your answer be?

A.
hacking.

B.
spoofing.

C.
cracking.

D.
social engineering.

Explanation:
In the context of network security, a spoofing attack is a situation in which one person or program successfully masquerades as another by falsifying data and thereby gaining an illegitimate advantage. But the term spoofing is used more widely about everything trying to originate from somewhere else than its real source.