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...winding road in Saint Romain au Mont d'Or, a medieval village 9 km north of Lyons, and you come upon a fortress-like compound straight out of a James Bond movie. Built in the 16th century as a way station for horse-drawn carriages, the three-hectare domain features a helicopter landing pad, a sensor-based thermography security system, 130 computers and seven plasma screens for videoconferencing...
...domain is De la Source, and its master is French businessman Thierry Ehrmann. He uses the 6,900 sq m of interior space as his home, which he shares with two teenage sons, an 80-kg Danish dog and two girlfriends, as well as the headquarters of the Server Group, an umbrella for the 13 tech companies he has created...
...counterfeit website mimicking the real home page of PayPal, the popular online fund-transfer service. PayPal has been hit with such spoofs several times. When a fake site was operating, hackers e-mailed PayPal users and got them to click on a hyperlink with the spoof site's domain name: www.paypai.com On many computers, a capital I looks identical to the l at the end of the word PayPal...
Near-identical domain names are easy to obtain. Banks have also been a frequent target of spoofers. Bank of America got wwwbankofamerica.com taken down--its domain name, minus the dot after www--but not before some customers were tricked into entering financial information...
Harris’ current studies are on how far children rely on either their own first-hand knowledge or what people tell them, especially when dealing with a new domain...