Early warning approaches to combat typosquatting

2009-07-01

Amit Verma

Symantec, India
Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

Typosquatting takes advantage of the typographical mistakes often made by users when entering a website address into a web browser. Amit Verma discusses a two-step approach to combatting the problem, prioritizing the registration of domain typos and detecting typos entered into Internet browsers and email clients.

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