Researchers Demo Typosquatting Security Risks
Two Godai Group researchers recently received 20 gigabytes of misaddressed e-mail after setting up doppelganger domains that matched those of Fortune 500 companies. “Doppelganger domains are ones that...
View ArticleCyber-Scammers Exploit Typing Errors to Intercept Email, Phish Details
Typosquatting is a widespread problem on the Web, as scammers register domains similar to popular Websites to trick users who accidentally mistype a domain name. Several recent Web security studies...
View Article4 Ways to Prevent Domain Name Hijacking
On the night of Monday, January 23, the hacktivist group UGNazi hijacked Coach.com, the Internet domain name of luxury goods manufacturer Coach. For several hours, fashionistas who wanted to ogle...
View Article4 ways to prevent domain name hijacking
February 06, 2012, 7:23 AM — On the night of Monday, January 23, the hacktivist group UGNazi hijacked Coach.com, the Internet domain name of luxury goods manufacturer Coach. For several hours,...
View ArticleDNS Changer and Flashback: Two Lessons in Modern Malware
It used to be computer viruses were simple. Your PC (never a Mac) became infected and, depending on the virus, your computer would die, would run slowly, or possibly open up gazillions of web pages...
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