Web Spoofing (1)

• Web spoofing = URL rewritting

• The attacker creates false “copy” of a the entire Web

  • attacker takes selected pages, the rest is available on-line
  • attacker web server is between a victim and the rest of the Web (DNS poisoning, registering false URL in a search engine)
  • if you see http://www.bad.com/http://www.good.com you are under attack; works even with secure connection
  • You can ask for it: http://www.anonymizer.com/
  • he can intercept and modify data
  • capture passwords, credit card information, etc

• Defense

  • disable JavaScript (prevents attacker from hiding URLs)
  • Display URL and look at it

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