Fun stuff, eh? Security experts are warning about a new threat to Web surfers: malicious Web sites that use international domain names to spoof the Web addresses of legitimate sites.
Attackers could register a Web domain "bloomberg.com," which looks identical to the popular business news Web site, but in which the letters "o" and "e" have been substituted with identical-looking substitutes from the Cyrillic alphabet, used in the Russian language, creating a new domain, the authors said. In another example, the authors registered the domain www.microsoft.com, in which the English letters "c" and "o" in that domain were substituted with their Cyrillic counterparts. More at http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,99613,00.html
