May 5, 2007

Have you accidentally mistyped or misspelled a domain name and ended up finding another similar product in front of you? For example, you want to find out other locations for Bally Total Fitness. Having gone to their website a few times before, you simply type the domain name in directly. Instead of typing www.ballyfitness.com, you accidentally type www.ballysfitness.com. What happens? Instead of finding the information you were seeking, you instead find an advertisement for a bottle of diet pills. This technique is a type of cybersquatting called typosquatting.

Beware of internet marketers who resort to unethical techniques to capture traffic and leads for their clients. These marketers and other cybersquatters may have a large bag of unethical tricks to manipulate traffic and leads away from your domain including domain name pinching, kiting, and keyword stuffing. Learn how these techniques work, how to read the fine print in your internet marketing contracts and what to do if these crimes have already been perpetrated against you by attending our presentation on Cybersquatting at this year’s annual TechnoSec conference next month, on June 4th.

This is a terrific way to combine great security training with a little sand and sun as the conference will be held in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Fountainhead students and graduates may attend the training for free as VIP guests of the college. Those interested in attending should contact Casey Rackley or Tammy Alexander for more details.

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About Fountainhead College of Technology's (FCT) Center for Information Assurance & Cybersecurity Training (IACT)

Fountainhead College of Technology, formerly Tennessee Institute of Electronics, was founded in 1947 and is committed to using it resources to significantly contribute to efforts to secure the nation's critical infrastructure. In 1999 the college began offering an associate's degree in Information Technology with curriculum developed to include information security training. In 2002 the college began development of a baccalaureate degree in Network Security and Forensics; and in 2003 Fountainhead College of Technology became the first college in the southeast to offer a computer security focused baccalaureate degree. The mission of the IACT center is to develop and maintain a strong information assurance curriculum that adheres to national standards, and to also address the cybersecurity needs of the community by offering training and support for Fountainhead College of Technology students, staff, and faculty; local law enforcement; government agencies; and information technology professionals.

For more information, please visit the official IACT website at: http://www.iawire.org, or contact Casey Rackley, Program Coordinator at casey.rackley [at] fountainheadcollege [dot] edu .