Microsoft Patch Tuesday gaffe leads netizens to 'Microosft' typo-squatting domain For its February Patch Day, Microsoft released security advisories covering 56 CVE-assigned vulnerabilities, 11 of them rated critical. In doing so, the Windows giant managed to publish a misspelled URL on the landing page for its February updates that instead of taking visitors to the intended Microsoft Security Response …
I doubt it. Sure, they have a bunch of money, but possible mistyped domains are so many that you can't just reserve them all.
Transposed letters: Microosft, Microsfot, Microsotf, etc. 8 combinations
Letter one over on a QWERTY keyboard: Microsofr, Microdoft, Mivrosoft, etc., 18 combinations
More than one letter off by one: Way too many combinations.
Letters off and sometimes transposed: Let's test the budget then.
Easier just to put all those combinations into a spell checker and run it over stuff as you publish it. Or check that links work.
Output from MicroCRAP that has been THOROUGHLY tested and checked for errors and absolutely nothing can go wrong...........
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