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All Spammed Up: ICANN move contributing to URL spoofing?

“With the addition of International Domain Names, which ICANN will be expanding next year, phishers found another way to disguise their spoofing by taking advantage of similarities between some of the characters in foreign and Latin alphabets. What makes that approach superior to other typographic tricks is that a target may have no way of knowing that he or she is headed to a spoofed address. That’s because in certain fonts foreign characters look like Latin characters.”

5 November 2009
14:09

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