IDN homograph attack
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idn-homograph-attack-189-15852358
title:
IDN homograph attack
text:
The internationalized domain name (IDN) homoglyph attack is a method used by malicious parties to deceive computer users about what remote system they are communicating with, by exploiting the fact that many different characters look alike. For example, the Cyrillic, Greek and Latin alphabets each have a letter ⟨o⟩ that has the same shape but different meaning from its counterparts. This kind of spoofing attack is also known as script spoofing. Unicode incorporates numerous scripts, and, for a n
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Visually similar letters in domain names
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
date created:
2005-03-15T09:54:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T14:10:34Z
main entity:
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