{"id":303,"date":"2025-04-30T01:22:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T01:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyse201s-indiap\/?p=303"},"modified":"2025-04-30T01:22:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T01:22:29","slug":"week-6-journal-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyse201s-indiap\/2025\/04\/30\/week-6-journal-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 6 Journal Entry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Can you spot three fake websites? [Refer Online Security Blogs, Public Awareness Sites, Academic Resources etc., and cite the source]. Compare the three fake websites to three real websites and highlight the features that identify them as fraudulent. Note: Don\u2019t generate or click on unwanted\/fake websites on your web browsers. Use examples from your sources to demonstrate what specific characteristics make these websites fake.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>According to Aura.com, there were multiple examples of fake websites, such as:<br>1) WaImart.com<br>\u2022 the site appears legit, however, there&#8217;s a capital \u201di\u201d instead of a lowercase<br>\u201cL\u201d to confuse consumers.<br>\u2022 Site should be listed as Walmart.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>2) Delivery.ips.com<br>\u2022 An extra word was added to the domain (Delivery),<br>\u2022 Listed as ips instead of ups, which confuses customers<br>\u2022 Site should be listed as ups.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>3) BankoffAmerica.com<br>\u2022 An extra \u201cf\u201d is added into the domain, which can easily go undetected<br>\u2022 Site should be listed as Walmart.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Citation:<br>Toohil, Ryan. \u201cHow to Identify Fake Websites: 11 Warning Signs to Know | Aura.\u201d<br>Www.aura.com, 17 Nov. 2023, www.aura.com\/learn\/how-to-identify-fake-websites.<br>Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you spot three fake websites? [Refer Online Security Blogs, Public Awareness Sites, Academic Resources etc., and cite the source]. Compare the three fake websites to three real websites and highlight the features that identify them as fraudulent. Note: Don\u2019t generate or click on unwanted\/fake websites on your web browsers. Use examples from your sources&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyse201s-indiap\/2025\/04\/30\/week-6-journal-entry\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":30517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyse201s-indiap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyse201s-indiap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyse201s-indiap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyse201s-indiap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyse201s-indiap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyse201s-indiap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyse201s-indiap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyse201s-indiap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyse201s-indiap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyse201s-indiap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}