Security researcher Gabor Szathmari re-registered old domain names for law firms that had merged, set up an email server. He says he received a steady stream of confidential information, including bank correspondence, invoices from other law firms, sensitive legal documents from clients, and updates from LinkedIn.com. The same technique could easily be used to commit fraud, he says, by reinstating an online web shop formerly running on an abandoned domain name, or just re-register any old domain name that catches their fancy.”]
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