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Ask students their sense of whether this will be effective. (I think it is vulnerable to habituation.)
Use Unicode and bidi to create lookalike function names.
Explains how to look for BEC via investigating typosquatted domains.
Researcher obtains 14 bit- or typo-quatted domains and analyzes their traffic.
Microsoft made an embarrassing goof in the release notes it published for the Patch Tuesday security updates it issued earlier this week.
Why blame-and-shaming people for missing homograph attacks is pointless.
Twitter bots have been around for almost as long as Twitter itself, and plenty of them are funny, provocative, or downright useful. But just like everything else online, there’s a dark side to the world of Twitter bots, as a recent report from The New York Times made clear.
Check out this engaging and entertaining cybersecurity ad that doesn’t include a single hoodie or (even more remarkably) any furtive keyboard typing in a darkened room.
This week, Phia wonders what kind of person falls for phishing attacks. Is it only insanely gullible luddites, or can smart, tech savvy people get phished, too? To find out, she conducts an experiment on her poor, unsuspecting coworkers.
Imposters posing as popular packages were found to contain malicious code