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

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Possibly because it is not terribly new

Every big thing that is widely engaging produces typo-squatting sites, along with the standard long-term typo-squatting sites.

The Olympics provided for quite a few of these.

A lot of typo-squatting sites aren't particularly malicious, they just want to catch your eye and sell you something. (Which I, personally, find almost as annoying as an attempt to infect machines.)

Many are plenty dangerous, though, and repeated efforts have been made to make people aware, but they don't listen. The lack of major news stories may be good, in a way: Once the targeted event is over, folks would tend to think they were somehow safe, as they wouldn't be trying to access the particular sites any longer.

It's dangerous out there all the time.

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

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