The 2010 IDN Homograph Attack Mitigation Survey
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publisher
CSREA Press
Faculty
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School
School of Computer and Information Science / Security Research Centre (secAU)
RAS ID
10920
Abstract
The advent of internationalised domains has introduced a new threat with the non-english character sets allowing visual mimicry of common domain names. Whilst this phenomenon remains well known in the development and internet industry the actual implementations of popular applications have been previously shown to lack successful mitigation strategies and countermeasures. The research found that in the current versions of most internet browsers and email clients, some form of homograph identification or blocking exists. However, some notable and popular applications include either flawed implementations or miss key features and thus allow for IDN based attacks.
Comments
Hannay, P., & Bolan, C. M. (2010). The 2010 IDN Homograph Attack Mitigation Survey. Proceedings of International Conference on Security & Management. (pp. 611-614). Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. CSREA Press. Conference website available here.