{"id":1489,"date":"2017-09-21T09:30:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T14:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2017-09-21T09:30:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T14:30:43","slug":"real-or-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1489","title":{"rendered":"Real or Fake?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-30-at-2.36.32-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1353\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-30-at-2.36.32-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a>After the Equifax information breach, many of their customers were encouraged to visit a site containing consumer updates and security information. \u00a0Instead of creating a page from the Equifax domain, the company spawned a new page, one that was easily copied, leaving their clients yet again at risk. \u00a0Nick Sweeting, a software engineer proved this point when he created a clone of their page. \u00a0His version was so convincing that a representative of Equifax even tweeted the web address (three separate times) he had created. \u00a0Sweeting&#8217;s\u00a0page alerted people that it was a fake since his intent was\u00a0not to steal information but to spotlight the fact that Equifax had created yet another cyber hazard.<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"headline\" class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/20\/business\/equifax-fake-website.html?module=WatchingPortal&amp;region=c-column-middle-span-region&amp;pgType=Homepage&amp;action=click&amp;mediaId=thumb_square&amp;state=standard&amp;contentPlacement=10&amp;version=internal&amp;contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&amp;contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F09%2F20%2Fbusiness%2Fequifax-fake-website.html&amp;eventName=Watching-article-click\">Someone Made a Fake Equifax Site. Then Equifax Linked to It.<\/a><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Equifax information breach, many of their customers were encouraged to visit a site containing consumer updates and security information. \u00a0Instead of creating a page from the Equifax domain, the company spawned a new page, one that was easily copied, leaving their clients yet again at risk. \u00a0Nick Sweeting, a software engineer proved this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1489\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Real or Fake?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,14],"tags":[1012,1009,1005,1007,1011,1008,1010,1006],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-model","category-technology","tag-clone-page","tag-cyber","tag-equifax","tag-fake-site","tag-information-breech","tag-linked","tag-software-engineer","tag-tweeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1490,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions\/1490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}