Spoofed URL

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 a parody.

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 called phishing.

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 in web browser technology.

ee also

* 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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