The Perils of Typos

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Via the BBC:  Bad spelling opens up security loophole

A missing dot in an email address might mean messages end up in the hands of cyber thieves, researchers have found.

By creating web domains that contained commonly mistyped names, the investigators received emails that would otherwise not be delivered.

2 responses to “The Perils of Typos”

  1. Who types email addresses these days? Is cut-n-paste a lost art?

  2. This is an old trick. They do the same thing with website names and such.