Suede and swayed. Mine and mine. They're homophones, right? No, wait — homonyms? Are homophone and homonym synonyms? And what's the deal with homographs, anyway? How do they fit in? At least you're ...

The risks around IDN Homographs are “significant and growing” according to research by Farsight Security. Its research around IDN lookalike domain names (also called Homographs) over a 12-month period ...

AS Lynne Truss, in her delightful book titled Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation highlights the importance of punctuation. The book features a punctuation-fan joke ...

A reader texted VERIFY with a screenshot that warned of a particularly deceptive strategy used by hackers. It included what appeared to be two examples of the same banking website URLs — except one of ...

Cyrillic (Russian alphabet) characters are the most common characters used in IDN homograph attacks, according to research published last month by Farsight Security. IDN stands for internationalized ...

Just as attackers are finding new, increasingly sophisticated ways to try and evade the detection techniques used by antiviruses, they are also improving their methods designed to trick the user or at ...

New research reveals the significant security risk posed by domain name homograph attacks. The author of the study has warned that not enough attention is being paid to the problem by brand owners.

SECURITY experts have delivered an urgent warning to Microsoft Office users about “homograph attacks”. The breach allows malware to be downloaded that can expose your data. Please provide a valid ...