Omitting the “o” in .com Could Be Costly

Posted on Mar 31, 2018

Omitting the “o” in .com Could Be Costly

Chambers said the user who visited that domain told him that after typing in espn.com he quickly had his computer screen filled with alerts about malware and countless other pop-ups. Security logs for that user’s system revealed the user had actually typed espn[dot]cm, but when Chambers reviewed the source code at that Web page he found an innocuous placeholder content page instead.

Source: krebsonsecurity.com