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Phishing attacks using internationalized domains are hard to block

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The latest version of Google Chrome, released earlier this week, restricts how domain names that use non-Latin characters are displayed in the browser. This change is in response to a recently disclosed technique that could allow attackers to create highly credible phishing websites.

The ability to register domain names made up of characters like those found in the Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Hebrew and other non-Latin alphabets dates back over a decade. Since 2009, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has also approved a large number of internationalized top-level domains (TLDs) — domain extensions — written with such characters.

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Android O updates: Google plans to release stricter measures for ransomware attacks – ChristianToday

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Android O updates: Google plans to release stricter measures for ransomware attacks
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Symantec's official blog reveals that after the first developer preview of the upcoming Android O was released, one of its contents has a direct impact on most threats caused by Android ransomware attacks, particularly those that use the system-type …

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Android O News: Google’s Latest Mobile Operating System Blocks Ransomware Attacks – Droid Report

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Android O News: Google's Latest Mobile Operating System Blocks Ransomware Attacks
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Android O is the latest mobile operating system with most up-to-date features. To name a few features, it has its Copy Less and Gesture Trigger. Not only that, it also has the ability to block attacks from the ransomware. The latter has been …

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Non-malware attacks grow – there are tools for IT security to fight back with

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More and more attackers are carrying out their work without using malware so they can evade detection by traditional, file-based security platforms, which presents a tough problem for security pros trying to defend against them.

Nearly two-thirds of security researchers polled by Carbon Black say they’ve noted an uptick in these attacks just since the beginning of the year, and aren’t confident that traditional anti-virus software can deal with them.

+More on Network World: IBM says cybercriminals are starting to grab unstructured data, spam has rebloomed 400% and ransomware has just gone nuts+

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