Happy Thursday! It’s really Wednesday night but many won’t read this until tomorrow. If you are like me, you have your favorite sites you go to. Sometimes you have them marked as a favorite and sometimes you just type it in the address bar of your favorite browser. Now for me, I use the Firefox browser and I have NoScript addon installed. I’ve written about that addon before. I HIGHLY recommend to add it if you already use Firefox.
Sometimes if you want to go to Google.com to search for some topic you are researching, be careful how you type it in. There are times that want to type google.com but you type in gooogle.com. Or gogle.com. When you mis-type it, you actually go to site and it may not be a friendly site. This practice is known as cyber squatting. People register websites close to a high traffic website and when people type in the wrong address, they are taken to a site they really don’t want to go. Sometimes cyber squatting is done to make money. For example, if you can predict a candidate who will run for office then you can register a site at GoDaddy.com and then let them pay you for your website. Like Hillaryforpresident.com. Not sure that is actually a real site but it probably is. That is just an example. You have to be quick though.
The reason I say to be careful is that there are those cyber criminals who have set up sites that will run exploits against any visitor to their sites. So when typing in your favorite sites, be very careful what you type in. Where you are taken may not be a nice place. Stay safe and take care. Go Jayhawks!!!
