Fun stuff, eh?
Security experts are warning about a new threat to Web surfers: malicious
Web sites that use international domain names to spoof the Web addresses
of legitimate sites.
Attackers could register a Web domain "bloomberg.com," which looks
identical to the popular business news Web site, but in which the letters
"o" and "e" have been substituted with identical-looking substitutes from
the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Russian language, creating a new
domain, the authors said. In another example, the authors registered the
domain www.microsoft.com, in which the English letters "c" and "o" in
that domain were substituted with their Cyrillic counterparts.
More at http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,99613,00.html
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