Cybersquatters ready for Mischief |Rajat Poonia Rajasthan
People are registering domains in typical cybersquatting fashion, and it could result in being quite dangerous for the average home user should they take a laptop or mobile device outside their network. When using a network outside the home, a laptop or mobile device could be deceived into connecting to a squatter's network.
In the early days of the Internet, nimble squatters would register domain names of brands, then sell them back to the owners for tidy sums. Rules eventually were adopted to squash squatters, but with as many as 1,300 new top-level domains appearing on the Internet in the next three years, squatting may be in vogue once again.
Squatting for cash, though, is only one way the new domains may be abused. One particular domain -- home.network -- can be exploited by the unscruplous to gain unauthorized access to a consumer's network, OpenDNS warned.
In the early days of the Internet, nimble squatters would register domain names of brands, then sell them back to the owners for tidy sums. Rules eventually were adopted to squash squatters, but with as many as 1,300 new top-level domains appearing on the Internet in the next three years, squatting may be in vogue once again.
Squatting for cash, though, is only one way the new domains may be abused. One particular domain -- home.network -- can be exploited by the unscruplous to gain unauthorized access to a consumer's network, OpenDNS warned.
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