Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Misspelled children’s Web sites lead to porn: Children among many targets of “typo-squatting” / NetworkWorld.com, 19 November 2007
http://digbig.com/4wbdc
Jon Brodkin
"Children’s Web sites are frequent targets of typo-squatting, a growing category of online fraud which lures unsuspecting Web surfers to malicious sites when they misspell the URL. Some typo-squatters lure children to pornographic Web sites. More than 60 of the “most squatted” sites are designed to appeal to minors, McAfee found in new research that quantifies the problem of typo-squatting. Domain names that are commonly targeted include webkinz.com, clubpenguin,com and neopets.com, McAfee says."
What’s In A Name: The State of Typo-Squatting 2007 / McAfee, November 2007
http://us.mcafee.com/root/identitytheft.asp?id=safe_typo&cid=38296