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homograph attack: a standalone construct

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Computer security

deceiving users with domain names built from look-alike characters, including characters from other scripts, that render like a trusted name.

In computer security, homograph attack refers to deceiving users with domain names built from look-alike characters, including characters from other scripts, that render like a trusted name. This meaning comes from Gabrilovich (2002) in Communications of the ACM.[1]

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attack4 fields · 10 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs domain3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs render1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Gabrilovich, E., & Gontmakher, A. (2002). The homograph attack. Communications of the ACM, 45(2), 128. https://doi.org/10.1145/503124.503156

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