- Spoofed URL
A Spoofed URL describes one website that poses as another. It sometimes applies a mechanism that exploits bugs in
web browser technology, allowing a malicious computer attack. Such attacks are most effective against computers that lack recent security patches. Others are designed for the purpose of aparody .During such an attack, a computer user innocently visits a web site and sees a familiar URL in the address bar such as "
http://www.wikipedia.org " but is, in reality, sending information to an entirely different location that would typically be monitored by an information thief. When sensitive information is requested by a fraudulent website, it is calledphishing .The user is typically enticed to the false website from an email or a
hyperlink from another website.In another variation, a website may look like the original, but is in fact a
parody of it. These are mostly harmless, and are more noticeably different from the original, as they usually "do not" exploit bugs inweb browser technology.ee also
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Spoofing attack
*Social engineering (computer security)
*Computer insecurity
*IDN homograph attack External links
* Secunia security describes [http://secunia.com/advisories/10395/ Microsoft Internet Explorer URL spoofing vulnerability 2003]
* Microsoft Knowledge Base Article [http://support.microsoft.com/?id=833786 833786] - Steps that you can take to help identify and to help protect yourself from deceptive (spoofed) Web sites and malicious hyperlinks.
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