Phishing through homographs: Letters that look alike but lead you astray in some browsers

Macworld
May 29, 2017, 6:00 am891 pts
When is an “a” not necessary the “a” you think it is? When a browser shows it as part of the URL in the location or smart-search field. Due to the late entry of non-Roman characters to domain names, a backwards-compatible method of representing them aids phishing. Unicode allows the representation of nearly…

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