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Easier to just do bitsquatting: register all the domains that are one cosmic ray induced bit flip away from a common domain name, e.g. https://www.bleepingcompu
by MontyCarloHall 5y ago
Easier to just do bitsquatting: register all the domains that are one cosmic ray induced bit flip away from a common domain name, e.g. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hijacking-traffic-to-microsoft-s-windowscom-with-bitflipping/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hijacking-tra...
- bitexploder 5y agoWe did this for a customer and to see what leaks. It’s very surprising and sometimes very bad from a security perspective on popular and high traffic domains of service providers.
- sbarre 5y agoI remember when this hit HN a few months(?) back, for me it was the first time learning about this and I assumed this might be an obscure thing. I ran the python script against my (very large) employer's domain name and was pleasantly surprised to see we owned all the bitsquatted versions already (there were maybe 10?)