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Typosquatting – study reveals the real risks when you mistype a website’s name [VIDEO]

14

Dec

2011

Admit it. You’ve made mistakes when typing in the name of a website. Your fingers fumble over eachother, and before you know it you’re not on google.com but goole.com instead. It’s an easy mistake to make and – inevitably – there are people waiting to take advantage of it. Security expert Paul Ducklin has taken […]

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Missing dots from email addresses opens 20GB data leak

12

Sep

2011

Security researchers have captured 120,000 emails intended for Fortune 500 companies by exploiting a basic typo. The emails included trade secrets, business invoices, personal information about employees, network diagrams and passwords. Researchers Peter Kim and Garrett Gee did this by buying 30 internet domains they thought people would send emails to by accident (a practice […]

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Typosquatters exploit misspelled variations of YouTube.com domain name

09

Sep

2011

Here is a scenario that may sound familiar to you. You were in front of your computer one night and decided to watch some YouTube clips. So you opened your favourite browser and because you have clumsy fingers, instead of typing “YouTube.com” in the address bar you entered “YoutTube.com”. A second later, a Web page […]

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