Cybersecurity: Typo squatting and DNSTwist

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You can find DNS twist and installation instructions here:

Or the web version here:

Like my shirts? Get your own at:

Watch all of my long form videos:

Connect with me on
Twitter:
@ryanmcbeth

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HelpIsOnTheWayUA.com

Join the conversation:

Want to send me something?
Ryan McBeth Productions LLC
8705 Colesville Rd.
Suite 249
Silver Spring, MD 20910
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"CFL Grey Cup Calgary 2009" by Gord McKenna is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

[sovereignukraine]

So the point you made about University Maryland is a good one. I worked as an IT contactor many years ago at a telecoms company. One of my tasks was to go around and purchase as many domain names that where similar or where derogatory about the company. Thereby mitigating some of the potential risks to customers that have highlighted here. This can also be applied to e-mail addresses too. Good job for bringing this to public attention. 👍

[philippos]

I always wear my black hoodie with the hood up when hacking. Gives +10 Skill.

[lioraselby]

I love seeing your cybersecurity videos, Ryan. They really motivate me to keep pushing forward and finish my degree!

[CarnisChampion]

Ryan I came for the Ukraina videos but stayed for the IT security videos and other interesting videos :) thank you!

[nonymu]

My 8 year old self seeing http: and have 8 viruses for free bobux: I do not have such weakness

[louskunt]

Man you’re on fire lately with all this awesome new content!✌️

[VroomTheSpaceApe]

There is a fantastic video from Defcon which looked at bitsquatting by just errors generated on hardware by millions of users on phones and compters. They didn't do bad things with it. He just changed the google logo. It is fascinating how most users can be completely unaware something even happened.

[studiogihu]

I love to see some cycling vlogs from you Ryan. Looking at your bike, you like sprints.

[NZobservatory]

This has been an issue since the advent of the World Wide Web.

[DrDeFord]

To be fair, if you have the budget for a legal team to check domains weekly, you can probably just buy most all the possible domains. (Certainly at least all the other TLDs.)

[JoshllerraH]

Instructions unclear. Snake electrocuted in my USB port.

[Dominic]

Not even 30 seconds I realized I’m not smart enough to complete tonight’s featured episode. However a Like is still awarded cuz he’s pretty cool 😎

[brianzulauf]

Scammers use this method to get you to call fake tech support but if you call the number and mess with them it can cost them up to 20 dollars per call.

[JWQweqOPDH]

This is why I never type URLs and instead perform a web search or use bookmarks for repeatedly visited pages

[xact.toeblades]

I love Canada... I hope you enjoyed your visit to the north

[maxg.]

Works flawlessly on WSL2 running Ubuntu 🤞🤞

[Overonator]

It's even worse because there are ambiguous fonts characters that all look the same like 1, l, i I, etc

[srutzky]

Regarding "ryan daht mcbeth daht-calm" ( 5:40 ): That is a mischaracterization of the what is actually happening there. Nobody registers domain names like that. The domain name in that case is just "mcbeth daht-calm" (and you can see this for yourself if you doing a `ping mcbeth daht-calm` and it should return the same IP address as shown in the video. The "ryan." portion of that is the hostname, and anything goes at that point. Typically there will be "www" and "mail" hostnames under a domain name (as in: "www daht mcbeth daht-calm", etc).

[johnhaller]

I don’t understand how Atlas VPN can pay for bandwidth used at $1.70 per month, let alone compute for encryption/decryption. In small searches, I’ve seen 100Gbps links for $11, 000 per month. That would require about 6500 subscribers per link with 15Mbps per subscriber if all subscribers were active at once for just the bandwidth (unlikely). I’ve seen reviews with about 200Mbps achieved, which is probably more than the coffee shop will give you. I also see that they are owned by the same company as NordVPN.