Misspelled Children's Websites Lead to Porn
Jon Brodkin writes on NetworkWorld:
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 here.
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.
posted by Fergie @ 11/19/2007 06:05:00 PM
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