ITWorld: Typosquatting for Corporate Espionage…

Hopefully companies will wake up to the importance of using an easy-to-spell .com domain name without hyphens and also to registering common typos.

Security professionals sometimes focus on the technically challenging problems rather than the ones ri…

Well, duh is right!

If people can misdial a telephone number, it should be quite obvious that they can and will mistype an email address.

If the misdialed tel # does not exist, they’ll simply get a recording that the #
is not valid.

If the tel # exists,the call will go through.

I get calls all the time from people who have lost luggage with one of the major airlines
simply because the caller is dialing the wrong area code.

The “Touch Tone Terrorist”,now called “Junkyard Willie”, made a business out of misdialed customer service calls.

The caller unknowingly dialed Customer Service From Hell where the customer
is always wrong.

It was quite hilarious. IMHO

Email is no different than a telephone call.

Patrick