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Typosquatting - what happens when you mistype a website name?
by Paul Ducklin. Sophos, 2011. "Paul Ducklin takes an in-depth look at the scale and the risk of the typosquatting industry: registering mis-spellings of popular domains in an attempt to profit from typing mistakes.
Applying every possible one-character typo to the domain names of Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple and Sophos, Ducklin collected HTTP data and browser screenshots from 1502 web sites and 14,495 URLs.
In this report, he analyses the data to paint a fascinating picture of the typosquatting ecosystem, finding surprisingly little malware, but nevertheless plenty of risk..."
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Last updated: 19 December 2011Related Links
- Typosquatting - study reveals the real risks when you mistype a website's name
- by Graham Cluley. Sophos, December 14, 2011. "Admit it. You've made mistakes when typing in the name of a website. Your fingers fumble over each other, 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 an indepth look at the scale and the risk of the typosquatting industry: registering misspellings of popular website domain names in an attempt to profit from typing mistakes. Watch the following video to learn more..."
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