Typo-squatting attacks with major domains are still viable — corner cases with Cyrillic characters still evade the best ...

Google Merchant Center introduces the mandatory store_address attribute for Local Inventory Ads and local free listings.

When applying UNIQUE constraints to Japanese names or addresses, or matching them via JOIN, the database collation determines ...

Letters get all the attention. Fancy fonts, cute styles, whole Pinterest boards. Numbers? Stuck looking like a spreadshe ...

Today all the cool languages and runtimes pledge allegiance to UTF-8, including Rust, Go, and Node.js (JavaScript itself prefers UTF-16 for internal encoding). Most code editors, from Visual Studio ...

A newly identified Unicode edge case lets lookalike domains bypass Chromium’s address-bar protections. Published October 3, ...

Security researchers have found new ways to build fake domains that resemble trusted brands while still appearing as readable ...

Chuck Hoskin Jr. fondly recalls watching a room full of Cherokee immersion students crowd around a screen to watch How to Train Your Dragon. Except Hiccup and Astrid weren't speaking English—the ...

Researchers have identified new characters that can be used by malicious actors to create domain names that appear legitimate ...

The name looks the same on the screen, but I can't search for it.' If you try to fix this problem just by removing whitespace ...

Researchers say two characters available to typosquatters and phisherfolk can trick Chromium browsers into displaying lookalike URLs as genuine web addresses. Wangling a domain name to look an awful ...

A business writes a 150-character appointment reminder, adds one emoji to make it friendlier, and discovers that ...