Carthik Sharma

Phishing flaw a danger to alternative browsers is interesting, to say the least. Internationalized domain names were introduced so we could have URLs in all languages - not just English. The modern browsers, especially gecko-based ones, like Netscape and Firefox support IDN already. Users of these browsers could be fooled into beleiving that www.pàypal.com is www.paypal.com, for example. It’s called a “homograph attack”.

The articles says :

Microsoft has not implemented support for IDN yet, so its IE browser is not vulnerable to the flaw.

Microsoft hasn’t implemented support for many standards, so that’s no surprise, really.

Filed by Carthik at 3:40 am under techknow

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