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Presenting IDN spoofing threats to ICANN’s security committee

I had the chance to present to the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee during their ICANN Mexico conference. It was an opportunity to give a portion of my upcoming presentation on Exploiting Unicode-enabled Software, focusing just on IDN visual … Continue reading

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The current state of IDN homograph spoofing in 2009 – you don’t need a .CN to do it

Aside from the frightening SSL stuff, Moxie Marlinspike stirred up some good interest in Internationalized Domain Names at Black Hat in DC with his domain lookalike attack. Since I’ve been studying the topic for a while, I wanted to point … Continue reading

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Unicode attacks and test cases – Visual Spoofing, IDN homograph attacks, and the Confusables

Let’s face it, playing tricks that mess with people’s perception can be fun.  With Unicode, there’s lots of fun tricks to be had.  What’s to stop someone from believing the following is what it appears to be: www.аmazon.com Looks like … Continue reading

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