Typosquatting Scam: How To Prevent This URL Hijacking Fraud | With Tips From Faisal Abidi
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This presentation gives useful information about typosquatting scams and how can you prevent this type of URL hijacking fraud. It contains valuable inputs about this spam from tech specialist, Faisal Abidi.
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Typosquatting Scam: How To Prevent This URL Hijacking Fraud | With Tips From Faisal Abidi
- 1. Typosquatting Scam: How To Prevent This URL Hijacking Fraud With Tips From Faisal Abidi
- 2. Table of Contents What is typosquatting scam? Who needs protection from typosquatting or URL hijacking? How to protect yourself from URL hijacking?
- 3. What is Typosquatting scam?
- 4. Typosquatting, also called URL hijacking, a sting site, or a fake URL, is a type of cybersquatting and possibly brandjacking that takes advantage of mistakes people make when typing a website address into a web browser, like typos. Faisal Abidi gave his useful insights about typosquatting scams, their nature, and warning signs in a conversation with us. According to Faisal Abidi, in this fraud, hijackers will register misspelled versions of your domain name to send people to dangerous sites. URL hijacking is a type of cybersquatting that happens when an attacker buys and registers a new domain name that is a slightly misspelled version of a well-known website and then copies the original website's look. This is done so that the URL can be taken over.
- 5. Who needs protection from Typosquatting or URL- hijacking?
- 6. Most hijackings happen because web admins do not know what they are doing, so they are not done on purpose. According to marketing expert Faisal Abidi, you could use the redirect in the wrong way to get your website higher up in the search engine results pages (SERPs). Anyone actively trying to get their websites to rank higher knows how hard and time- consuming this can be. Attackers are always looking for new ways to take advantage of people's mistakes, which means that URL hijacking scams will always be popular. In most cases of domain hijacking, the redirect is the one who did it. With a URL redirect, search engines can find content that may have been moved. SEO professionals always use redirects to ensure that content is found and that frameworks work smoothly.
- 7. How to Protect Yourself from URL Hijacking?
- 8. The following slide shares some knowledge that marketing expert Faisal Abidi revealed understand how to protect internet users from URL hijacking fraud.
- 9. You don't have much control over URL hijacking, but there are a few things you can do to make it less likely that it will happen to your site. To get rid of problem URLs, you must look closely at and improve both new and old backlinks. Adding enterprise-scale security solutions to your security plan is another step in the right direction. Faisal Abidi says that in this spam there is no one particular way to 100% stop URLs from being changed. How easy it is for someone to take over your URL depends on how well you do SEO link building. URL hijacking is closely related to the basic SEO technique of building links, so you can't just use security software to stop it. Because of this, it's essential to regularly look at new and old backlinks to find and remove bad URLs.
- 10. With Special Thanks To: Faisal Abidi, Co-founder of RNF Technologies
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- This presentation gives useful information about typosquatting scams and how can you prevent this type of URL hijacking fraud. It contains valuable inputs about this spam from tech specialist, Faisal Abidi.