Missing dots from email addresses opens 20GB data leak | Naked Security
september 2011 by rtlechow
"Security researchers have captured 120,000 emails intended for Fortune 500 companies by exploiting a basic typo. The emails included trade secrets, business invoices, personal information about employees, network diagrams and passwords.
Researchers Peter Kim and Garrett Gee did this by buying 30 internet domains they thought people would send emails to by accident (a practice known as typosquatting).
The domain names they chose were all identical to subdomains used by Fortune 500 companies save for a missing dot."
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Researchers Peter Kim and Garrett Gee did this by buying 30 internet domains they thought people would send emails to by accident (a practice known as typosquatting).
The domain names they chose were all identical to subdomains used by Fortune 500 companies save for a missing dot."
september 2011 by rtlechow
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