Darn – you typed “Faecbook” instead of “Facebook” again… and sneaky scammers are taking advantage of your misspellings online. Businessweek recently wrote an article featuring Websense on the rise of “typosquatters,” the bad guys who buy domain names spelled similarly to those of real companies to take advantage of fat-fingered users.
Businessweek outlines an extensive history of typosquatting, and features Websense research on the subject. The Websense Security Labs are quoted for the statistic that more than 62 percent of the active domain names based on common misspellings of Facebook (and not owned by Facebook led to scams or malicious sites).
Typosquatting is a cheap way to get a lot of traffic, and poses major risks to corporate confidential information. Read more from the Security Labs blog on typosquatting here.
Find out how to protect your organization from security threats like typosquatting here.