Typosquatting the U.S presidential election - a security risk?

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Who will care to protect the visitors?

Your analysis is quite right, but you failed to observe the most important element: there will be NO ONE to prevent these types of attacks, or protect the visitors, simply because nobody will care.
Unlike a typosquatting attack on a corporate site, for a political agenda the following fact must be observed: As long as these typosquatting campaign does not hurt the image of the candidates, they'll do nothing to address these issues.
And an expert attacker will tread carefully to collect data, or to attack visitors, while the actual site content is supporting the campagin of the chosen name. This way, the elections will be long gone before the victims raise their voices to the candidates - there won't be anyone to hear them

So you should finish up the commentary with a clear warning that visitors are left on their own devices to protect themselves

Spirovski Bozidar
http://www.shortinfosec.net

Posted by: Bozhidar   Posted on: 08/22/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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