news Man sentenced for hijacking company’s domain name and demanding $10,000

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An Arizona man has been sentenced for redirecting his former company’s domain name to a porn site.

Travis Tso worked for an IT company in Phoenix. In 2011 he renewed an account for the company with GoDaddy.

While someone at a company has to have registrar login credentials, it’s important to have security protocols in place to make sure this type of hijacking doesn’t happen. Also, the domain shouldn’t be registered in the name of an employee...

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