{"id":135263,"date":"2010-01-04T05:23:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T10:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5439471"},"modified":"2010-01-04T05:23:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T10:23:08","slug":"how-non-latin-domain-names-could-be-used-to-steal-your-money-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/135263","title":{"rendered":"How Non-Latin Domain Names Could Be Used to Steal Your Money [Crime]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Unicode is great because it supports multiple languages simultaneously, bringing international understanding, universal peace, and planetary love. And so is ICANN’s decision to allow domain names that use non-Latin alphabets. Until both combine to steal your credit card numbers.<\/p>\n

Or your login name, passwords, address, or whatever other data a phishing site can get from you.<\/p>\n

Until now, there was an easy way to test if a site was legit or not: You just look at the browser URL. If it’s not paypal.com or amazon.com or whatever.com, then it’s not<\/i> those companies’ web sites, no matter how well they clone their layout and graphics.<\/p>\n

The problem will come in 2010. That’s when sites’ URLs would start popping in non-Latin alphabets like Cyrillic. And that’s when there will<\/i> be cases of mistaken identity: Just check the image above, in which the russian word “raural” becomes “paypal.” According to trademark expert Charlie Abrahams, of MarkMonitor:<\/p>\n

\n

The risk for general brand abuse is going to increase exponentially. It’s difficult enough in English. At present, most e-mail phishing does not use anything that resembles the real site name. We could see the level of sophistication in phishing attacks increased by the use of foreign languages.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Can you see what this is going to be bring? Yes, unless someone comes up with rules soon, this will bring a big bag full of hurt. [The Times<\/a> via Masable<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Note: To those readers who said there’s no “l” in the Cyrillic alphabet, you are right, there’s no “l” in traditional<\/b> Cyrillic, but there is in the extended Cyrillic supported by Unicode.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n



\n

\n\"\"<\/a>
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

<\/img><\/a>
\n<\/img><\/a><\/p>\n

\n<\/img><\/a> <\/img><\/a> <\/img><\/a> <\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unicode is great because it supports multiple languages simultaneously, bringing international understanding, universal peace, and planetary love. And so is ICANN’s decision to allow domain names that use non-Latin alphabets. Until both combine to steal your credit card numbers. Or your login name, passwords, address, or whatever other data a phishing site can get from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1548,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}