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Microsoft 'URL Tracer' Hunts Typosquatters
TonioSop writes "Microsoft Research has released a new tool to help pinpoint large-scale typosquatters that are known to be gaming pay-per-click domain parking services. The lightweight prototype, called Strider URL Tracer, builds on the work within Microsoft's Cybersecurity and Systems Management group to keep tabs on a sophisticated typosquatting scheme that uses multilayer URL redirection to make money from Google's AdSense for domains program. "
Geez editors this is a dupe I was reading this same article at slashdt.org earlier *sigh* :)
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And here we have the Typosquatter, a theropod dinosaur, roughly between the early punchcards and their ultimate culmination in the Domain-Squatting dinosaurs. It lived between 1 to 13 years ago, in the Windows Ages.
Of the early Internet period, though one unknown species is from the very late Typewriter period. The various Typosquatter species are bulky omnivores, ranging from approximately 2 to 3 metres (5-8 feet) in height, and averaging about 235 pounds in weight.
Its most distinctive feature was the uncanny ability to take on the likeness of other domains, likely used for trapping its fumbling prey and for phishing scams. It was recently hunted to extinction by Tyrannus Microsoftus using its most effective method of capture, the 'URL Tracer.'
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...if there are more than 1000 participants, Microsoft will pay them each $1000.
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Typosquatting sounds like it was coined by the grammar nazis. Observe its use in such a sentence:
After Tad posted that illiterate post on Slashdot, the grammar nazis typosquatted down and took a big dump all over it.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
FTFA:
He said the group [...] found more then 7,000 typo-domains.
Priceless.
Registering accounts later than some other chrisb since 1997
Actually, goatadsl.co.uk is a legitimate ISP. I would have gone with them but their download rates are only 1.5 megableats per second.
I remember that years ago Bill Gates got together with Disney to make an email-tracing program. It's great to hear they're working on something similar again, because the people who took part in the beta testing for the email tracing program were supposed to be really handsomely rewarded. I think they got, like, $10,000 for every person they forwarded it to, or something.
I wonder where I can sign up to test this program?
Can anyone tell me how to set my sig on Slashdot?