Criminal TypoSquatting on Rise

2011-12-212011-12-20

By registering misspelled web addresses, cyber thugs are seizing innocent victims Sophos, the IT security and data-protection company, is warning internet users to take care when they type in web addresses, especially the popular ones. By a subtle misspelling, users are taken to these cyber-bandits websites instead of the one intended. This new form of criminal … Read more

Facebook Files TypoSquatting Lawsuit against Affiliate Marketers

2011-08-042011-08-04

If you didn’t notice, last week Facebook filed a lawsuit in federal court against several marketers for basically typo squatting. The lawsuit, found here claims that 25 different people were using similar domains to Facebook that were common typo errors. According to this report, over 48 million visitors a year are diverted away from Facebook. … Read more