Doppelganger Domains in the News!

After the Wired.com article was posted on September 8th, it spread pretty quickly to other news sites and on twitter. Here are a bunch of links to other sites’ coverage of our research.

• CNN.com – E-mail typos result in 20GB of stolen data
• Slashdot.org – Researchers’ Typosquatting Stole 20 GB of E-Mail
• Gizmodo.com – How Researchers Stole 20GB of E-Mail from Fortune 500 Companies
• ArsTechnica.com – Researchers’ typosquatting snarfed 20GB of Fortune 500 e-mails
• Net-Security.org – Researchers steal 20GB of corporate emails via doppelganger domains
• DomainNameWire.com – Doppelganger Domains. Oh, My.
• GCN.com – How ‘doppelganger domains’ steal data from e-mail
• TheRegister.co.uk – Typo-squatting domains can harvest corporate emails
• MSNBC.com – Researchers easily harvest emails from Fortune 500 companies
• DomainRegistration.com.au – Doppelganger Domain Names Yet Another Online Threat For Business

The amount of debate this research generated was also interesting to see. Wired, CNN, and of course Slashdot among others all had lively discussions going on. I’m actually glad the research generated this type of interest, and hopefully companies will take the needed steps to address the issue and protect themselves.