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The shadiest characters in the world of top-level domains – ZDNet


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The shadiest characters in the world of top-level domains
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A number of top-level domains are used almost entirely to support botnets, spam campaigns and phishing, researchers have revealed. On Wednesday, a team from enterprise security firm Blue Coat unveiled the result of months of research into today's …

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This String of 13 Characters Can Crash your Chrome on a Mac

If you’re currently on a Mac computer and using a Chrome browser then a weird little Apple’s OS X quirk, just a special thirteen-characters string could cause your tab in Chrome to crash instantly. A string of 13 characters (appear to be in Assyrian …
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Gmail introduces filters for non-Latin characters, weeding out more phishing emails

Using non-Latin characters that look very similar to their ASCII counterparts helps scammers, spammers and phishing crooks send emails from legitimate-looking addresses. Now Google’s putting a stop to that with a set of new spam filters.
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Apple apps turned upside down writing right to left – you’re only 6 characters from a crash!

Apple’s iOS and OS X are currently under what can only be described as a “jolly irritating attack.” Certain text strings, when processed by the operating system’s CoreText rendering engine, cause the application that’s trying to display them to crash.
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