cybersquatting – MrHacker

Google Argentina domain bought by a random citizen for $5

The official Google Argentina domain went down for hours after its ownership was transferred to an Argentinan citizen. On Wednesday, Google users in Argentina were in for a surprise after the country’s primary search engine went down for almost three hours. Assuming that the server had crashed, many users started expressing concern over what could […]

Jun 15, 2016

How A Student Fooled 17,000 Coders Into Running His ‘Sketchy’ Programming Code

Short Bytes: Using the typosquatting technique, a German college student tricked more than 17,000 people from cybersecurity and programming community into clicking his fake software packages. More than half the time his code ran with administrative rights, affecting government and military organizations. Do you know about typosquatting? Known by the other names like domain squatting and cybersquatting, […]

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