Security News > 2015 > June > Researcher proves how easy it is to pull off homographic phishing attacks (Help Net Security)

2015-06-30 09:32
Security consultant Paul Moore has managed to register a domain that, at first glance, looks like that of UK-based Lloyds Bank, and get a valid TLS certificate for it from CloudFlare. He did so by...
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