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  1. BastilleBSD :freebsd: @BastilleBSD ·

    More IDN homograph detection research today. This screenshot is a bit horrifying considering how nearly identical many of the invalid entries visually match the valid entry (top).

    #dns #homograph #cybersecurity
  2. BastilleBSD :freebsd: @BastilleBSD ·

    Screenshot from my custom (Rust) DNS filtering-forwarder with new experimental runtime IDN homograph detection against a predefined protected domain list.

    Screenshot results reflect these punycodes:
    xn--ggle-55da.com google.com BLOCK
    xn--pypl-53dc.com paypal.com BLOCK
    xn--pple-43d.com apple.com BLOCK
    xn--fiq228c5hs.cn chinese ALLOW

    #dns #homograph #cybersecurity
  3. BastilleBSD :freebsd: @BastilleBSD ·

    Today I fell down the rabbit hole of detecting and blocking IDN homograph attacks at the DNS level. Some of the homograph domains are clever!

    #dns #homograph #cybersecurity
  4. Martin Schäfer @[email protected] ·

    TIL: #English "desert" as a noun is actually a #homograph: there is desert_1 /ˈdɛz.ɚt/ (as in "the camels in the desert", but also desert_2 /dɪˈzɝt/ 'that which is deserved' as in " Will the bad get their just deserts?"
    And then of course there is also the verb "desert", as in "Don't desert me", homonym of desert_2

    #english #homograph
  5. Renaud Lifchitz :verified: @[email protected] ·

    GitHub - evilsocket/ditto: A #tool for #IDN #homograph #attacks and #detection
    github.com/evilsocket/ditto

    #tool #idn #homograph #attacks #detection
  6. Jocelyn Sordoni @[email protected] ·

    Welcome to the #Promptodon #WritingPrompt also today's #Haiku
    Today's Prompt (Jan 5):

    #Caterwaul

    Caterwaul, my cat,
    I'll cater for y'all when you
    Clau up that nice waul.

    #homograph #homophone

    #homophone #homograph #caterwaul #haiku #writingprompt #promptodon
  7. Terence Eden @[email protected] ·

    It is spelled "URl"

    shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/03/it-is

    #homoglyphs #homograph #troll

    #troll #homograph #homoglyphs
  8. Terence Eden’s Blog @[email protected] ·

    It is spelled "URl"
    https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/03/it-is-spelled-url/

    There are many sectarian divides in computer.

    • "Little-Endians" and "Big-Endians" wage bitter war against each other over the order of bits.
    • Should line in text files end with \r\n or just \n?
    • And both vi and emacs users fight betwixt themselves while ignoring the superior foe - nano.

    Perhaps the most contentious of these is the battle between URI and URL. Should we refer to links on the web as Uniform Resource Identifiers or Locators? Obviously there is a correct answer - and anyone who disagrees is a heretic.

    So, I've come up with a compromise guaranteed to annoy satisfy everyone - URl.

    That's upper-case U, upper-case R, lower case L.

    Perfect!

    https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/03/it-is-spelled-url/

    #homoglyphs #homograph #troll

    #homoglyphs #homograph #troll