IP-specific addresses - User Talkback - Alarm over pharming attacks: identity theft made even easier - CNET Reviews

IP-specific addresses - User Talkback - Alarm over pharming attacks: identity theft made even easier - CNET Reviews

CNet offers some good, if difficult, advice on protecting yourself from those who might seek to spoof web addresses in order to get your private information via "pharming" - that is to type the IP address into your browser directly. Every site as an IP address or Internet Protocol address although usually we type in the name of the site instead of the address. The article includes the IP addresses of some popular sites as well as a means of identifying the addresses of other sites.