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One small tweak gave researchers a powerful web domain ability that could prove incredibly useful for hackers

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A cybersecurity researcher recently stumbled upon an Internet vulnerability allowing him to track people’s email, run code on servers, and even counterfeit HTTPS certificates - in fact, it gave him so many options, it has been described as having “superpowers”.

The vulnerability is quite a simple one in nature - an expired domain, still being pinged by numerous servers. The domain in question is dotmobiregistry.net - which used to host the WHOIS server for .mobi.

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