Re: International domain names may pose threat

From: Joseph McDonald (joe@vpop.net)
Date: Wed Feb 09 2005 - 18:46:06 EST


bill@daze.net wrote:

> 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.

bummer of the summer. I guess MS is lucky they never implemented IDN...

Here is a fix using the Adblock extension:
http://users.tns.net/%7Eskingery/weblog/2005/02/workaround-for-idn-spoofing-issue.html

Disabling network.enableIDN as described here:
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/02/06/shmoo_group_exploit_.html
doesn't seem to "stick"

-joe



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