[Swordmaker]

This browser Exploit does not work on an up-to-date Apple Safari as it would display the correct URL address in the address bar. The same holds true in Chrome v.60 on MacOS 10.12 is also not vulnerable to this attack called a "homograph attack." Apparently Microsoft Internet Explorer is also immune to this.

[Vroomfondel]

I've long been annoyed that Blizzard won't allow me to name a World of Warcraft character ьoь.

[Swordmaker]

"Homograph Attacks" are back for some browsers in which clicking what appears to be a link to a well known site actually takes you to a fake site that is NOT what you think it is. This works by using ASCII characters that are actually foreign characters. Fully up-to-date Apple Safari, Chrome v.60 on macOS, and Microsoft Internet Explorer are not susceptible to "Homographic Attacks" but many other popular alternative and older versions of those browsers are. Those that are immune will post the actual URL address in the address bar and often post a warning alert. The others will be spoofed into posting the incorrect URL address. A word to the wary in this Register Article worth reading. — PING!

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[Buckeye McFrog]

Homograph - a mid-20th Century device that was used to play Liberace records.

[cba123]

Well I’m using Windows 10, and they both display correctly, when I held my mouse over each.

That is to say, as a bunch of nonsense.

Just saying.

[I want the USA back]

Typical stupidity. Warned in 2005. I remember the warning. Nothing done. And these people are going to program devices that can injure people??

[IYAS9YAS]

Yeah, but if I hover over both, I can see right away there are problems. IE 10 shows me what the actual name is on a bar at the bottom left of the browser, and the first link actually shows nothing, the second shows the real name of the link as noted in the article. I’ve known to look at what the bar shows me at the bottom of the page for longer than I can remember.

[old-ager]

I’m trying this Chrome extension. “Real Domain Name”

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/real-domain-name/lhbkkikjboiebjeghokpefafaahnfoff?hl=en-US

[old-ager]

I just tried this on Chrome 56 in Windows, and it’s not immune. However the “Real Domain Name” extension did its job.