Google announced today that Gmail’s spam filter can now handle the suspicious “Unicode Homoglyphs,” giving people another tool with which to fight garbage e-mail. Homoglyphs are the characters that ...

When ICANN began to allow registration of internationalized domain names—that is, domain names that use non-ASCII characters—they unwittingly opened a new method for phishing campaigns to succeed.

FIRST LOOK: DDOS ATTACKS TREBLE IN SIZE – Big is the new normal when it comes to DDoS attacks, with the average size nearly trebling in the past year. In a report from Verisign to be released later ...

Verisign, which operates the .com and .net registries has deployed changes to its rules to prevent registration of bogus, lookalike domain names using Unicode International Phonetic Alphabet Extension ...