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Question:
Gurvinder is the web security administrator for an online auction website. A small number of users are complaining that when they visit the website it does not appear to be the correct site. Gurvinder checks and he can visit the site without any issues, even from computers outside the network. He also checks the web server log and there is no record of those users ever connecting. What is the BEST explanation for this?
A
Typosquatting.
explanation
From the description, it appears that they are not connecting to the real webserver but rather a fake server. That indicates typosquatting: have a URL that is named very similarly to a real site so that when users mistype the real site’s URL they will go to the fake site. The other options are all methods of attacking a website, but in this case, the actual website was not attacked. Instead, some users are visiting a fake site.
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