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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Applying every possible one-character typo to the domain names of Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple and Sophos, Ducklin collected data from 1502 websites and 14,495 URLs.
In a fascinating report, he analyses the data to paint a fascinating picture of the typosquatting ecosystem.
His research’s findings may mean that you’re more careful than ever before when you type in that next web address.
Read the full report now:
“Typosquatting – what happens when you mistype a website name?”
