Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Mozilla Implements TLD Whitelist for Firefox in Response to IDN Homographs Spoofing

Via CircleID.

Mozilla Foundation has announced changes to Firefox concerning Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) to deal with homograph spoofing attacks. According to the organization, "Mozilla Foundation products now only display IDNs in a whitelist of TLDs, which have policies stating what characters are permitted, and procedures for making sure that no homographic domains are registered to two different entities."


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