Typosquatting programming language package managers

Sat, 25 Jun 2016 16:39:33 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
http://incolumitas.com/2016/06/08/typosquatting-package-managers/

"In the domain name system, typosquatting is a well known problem.
Typosquatting is the malicious registering of a domain that is lexically
similar to another, often highly frequented, website. Typosquatters
would for instance register a domain named Gooogle.com instead of the
well known Google.com."

Be very careful when installing programming language packages!

Via Aaron Seigo and Alan Cox.

Cheers,
        *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net                   Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/             Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/                Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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