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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. "

2 of 124 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Dupe by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Actually, you misspelled the URL.

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  2. Re:Dupe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    unfortunately that URL has been slashdtted