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When an attacker presents a program or himself as someone else to obtain private information and pretends to be a legitimate website, network, ftp site, or person in a chat session, what type of attack
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When an attacker presents a program or himself as someone else to obtain private information and pretends to be a legitimate website, network, ftp site, or person in a chat session, what type of attack is occurring?

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A spoofing attack. "a situation in which one person or program successfully masquerades as another by falsifying data, thereby gaining an illegitimate advantage."
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