page_title: Spoofed URL
section_title: Cyber security
hierarchical_section_title: Spoofed URL / Cyber security
caption_attribution_description: Schematic representation of the SSL handshake protocol with two way authentication with certificates.
context_page_description: A spoofed URL describes one website that poses as another website. 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.
  This can also take place in a hosts file. It can redirect a site to another IP, which could be a spoofed website.
context_section_description: Spoofing is the act of deception or hoaxing.  URLs are the address of a resource (as a document or Web site) on the Internet that consists of a communications protocol followed by the name or address of a computer on the network and that often includes additional locating information (as directory and file names).  Simply, a spoofed URL is a web address that illuminates an immense amount of deception through its ability to appear as an original site, despite it not being one.  In order to prevent falling victim to the prevalent scams stemmed from the spoofed URLs, major software companies have come forward and advised techniques to detect and prevent spoofed URLs.
caption: SSL handshake with two way authentication with certificates
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