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Submission + - Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content (krebsonsecurity.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: Direct navigation — the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser — has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast majority of “parked” domains — mostly expired or dormant domain names, or common misspellings of popular websites — are now configured to redirect visitors to sites that foist scams and malware. When Internet users try to visit expired domain names or accidentally navigate to a lookalike “typosquatting” domain, they are typically brought to a placeholder page at a domain parking company that tries to monetize the wayward traffic by displaying links to a number of third-party websites that have paid to have their links shown.

A decade ago, ending up at one of these parked domains came with a relatively small chance of being redirected to a malicious destination: In 2014, researchers found (PDF) that parked domains redirected users to malicious sites less than five percent of the time — regardless of whether the visitor clicked on any links at the parked page. But in a series of experiments over the past few months, researchers at the security firm Infoblox say they discovered the situation is now reversed, and that malicious content is by far the norm now for parked websites.

Comment Re:Core Competency: Lobbying, or engineering? (Score 1) 126

When a product or service is deemed too expensive (for buyers), or too cheap (for sellers), what to politicians do? Why, they take taxpayer money and hand it out as subsidies, thus "correcting" the price. What they NEVER do, is to take actions that will correct the cost.

Producing semiconductors in the US is not viable. THAT is the problem that must be addressed. Fixing the problem of a high cost, not artificially lowering the price.

Comment Core Competency: Lobbying, or engineering? (Score 4, Insightful) 126

Maybe if he had spent less time panhandling for taxpayer money for products for which the market was already willing to pay handsomely?

Maybe if he instead invested his time in engineering?

If your business model is predicated on government bail-outs, you don't have a business.

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