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…
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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