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Microsoft 'URL Tracer' Hunts Typosquatters

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-always-kinda-find-it-flattering dept.

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. Thanks for dupes! by devphaeton · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If it weren't for dupes, some of us wouldn't see everything. A few of us work for a living, you insensitive clods!

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    But this is toadilly failed because:

    1) Microsoft is evil, through and through
    2) Apple innovated this in 1956 and it was more lickable
    3) Gentoo's version runs .005ms faster and only requires a week to compile
    4) This is the final straw that killed BSD
    5) Sun Microsystems was just looking for the latest thing to flip-flop about
    6) I have to pee
    7) News for Turds, Stuff that Splatters

    right? right? am eye riiiight?

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