Another unicode based exploit. Because you can now use unicode in URLs it’s quite easy to spoof them. Example: http://www.paypal.com is the actual site and http://www.pаypal.com/ is the spoof URL. The spoof URL is actually http://www.pаypal.com, which of course is the unicode character а, which looks exactly like an a. You don’t need to be [...]
Entries from February 16th, 2005
New URL Unicode Spoofing Technique Revealed
February 16th, 2005 · No Comments · Internet, Security
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Online Gaming Addiction Becoming A Problem
February 16th, 2005 · No Comments · Video Games
Well, what we all saw coming is becoming reality. Now the BBC has an article about people who have gaming……Isues….. Excerpt: “I can’t talk to him while he is playing. There is absolutely no point as he doesn’t hear me or is so distracted that I get a ‘ummm… ya’ a few minutes after I [...]
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3 Year Old Newest Member Of MENSA
February 16th, 2005 · No Comments · News
The BBC reports that the newest (and youngest) memeber of MENSA is three year old Mikhail Ali. Excerpt: Mikhail undertook a series of tests involving maths, picture and logic puzzles and number sequences. Mrs Ali added: “Every day he amazes us, but underneath it all he’s still our little boy too. “He still plays with [...]
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Thunderbird 2.0 Roadmap
February 16th, 2005 · No Comments · Firefox & Thunderbird
Looks like Mozilla has released the roadmap for Thunderbird 2.0. An excerpt: 1.1 Goals Inline spell checking (spell as you type) Improved spell check engine. Update our version of myspell to the current version used by Open Office.org Deleting attachments from e-mail Auto Save As Draft Phishing Detector: Thunderbird will attempt to detect email scams, [...]
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SHA-1 Bites The Dust
February 16th, 2005 · No Comments · News, Security
It is time. Bruce Schneier reports that SHA-1 has been broken. He writes: SHA-1 has been broken. Not a reduced-round version. Not a simplified version. The real thing. The research team of Xiaoyun Wang, Yiqun Lisa Yin, and Hongbo Yu (mostly from Shandong University in China) have been quietly circulating a paper announcing their results. [...]
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