Earthlink Redirect Poses Security Risk

Tim

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Stop the internet! So redirecting web traffic off of mistyped web addresses to what appears to be legitimate websites poses a security risk? Who would have thunk it?

The vulnerability was in a service called Barefruit, which Earthlink has been using since August 2006 to return Web pages with search terms and advertising to customers who mistype a domain name in their browser.
 
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