Website Spoofing

Website spoofing is the practice of creating website as a hoax. The reader feel that the website was created by a different person or organization. In most cases the readers reach these sites by making small mistakes while entering the URL in the address bar. For example if the user enters www.virsu.com instead of www.virus.com, he may reach the spoofed site. (This is only an example and doesn't mean that www.virsu.com is a spoofed site.) URL redirection is a technique used for spoofing. URL redirection is generally used to redirect a user to a specific website. ie, to have more URLs for a specific website. These facility is illegally used for spoofing. Another method used is the usage of control characters. The control characters are non-printable characters that are represented by ASCII codes. The main motive in website spoofing is to publish false information regarding a person or authority or organisation.