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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. "

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  1. Re:Dupe by onebecoming · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here's my favorite misspelling: slsahdot.org

    Let's see what the stats look like today.