Re: Carlyfiorina.org = LMOA! Ex HP Employee Bought Domain Name
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Almost as funny as Hillary's...
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Date: May 05, 2015 10:37AM
Being a malware site. LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Hillaryclinton.org will probably just infect your computer
April 2, 2015
LUCIANA LOPEZ
REUTERS
NEW YORK — Hillaryclinton.org bears the likely Democratic presidential candidate’s name, but she would not want supporters to go there: some cyber security experts said this week the site contains malicious software.
The site is registered, not to Clinton, but to an administrator in the Cayman Islands. Its existence underscores the challenge 2016 U.S. presidential hopefuls will face in trying to control their digital brands, more important than ever before as voters increasingly turn to the Internet to learn more about candidates.
An examination by Reuters of domains including the full names of eight Republican and four Democratic hopefuls, ending in .com, .org, .net and .info, showed that only a few of those sites appear to be under the control of the candidates.
The rest are seemingly owned by a hodgepodge of buyers — from self-declared fans of the candidates to anonymous registrants who have “parked” the domains — that is to say owned but unused — for undisclosed reasons.
“Welcome to the Wild Wild West of the Internet,” said Patrick Peterson, the chief executive of cyber safety company Agari.
Several experts, including from Trend Micro and TrustedSec, who reviewed the hillaryclinton.org site at the request of Reuters said it contained malware that could infect users’ computers or phish for personal information. Kevin Epstein, a vice president at cyber security company Proofpoint, said the site had “classic domain-squatting drive-by download malware.”
The owner of hillaryclinton.org did not respond to a request for comment.