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Emojis can be hacked to hide data or messages, unicode Characters also susceptible

Earlier this week, software engineer Paul Butler published a blog post titled "Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji." In it, he showcased a tool he created to allow you to do this yourself and ...
Security Boulevard

NIST SP 800-63B Rev. 4 Password Updates

Stay ahead of compliance with NIST 800-63B Rev 4. The latest password updates and how to enforce stronger security in Active ...
Bleeping Computer

Invisible characters could be hiding backdoors in your JavaScript code

Could malicious backdoors be hiding in your code, that otherwise appears perfectly clean to the human eye and text editors alike? A security researcher has shed light on how invisible characters can ...
Geeky Gadgets

How Emojis Are Secretly Hacking AI Models – The Hidden Threat Explained

Imagine sending a simple emoji in a text message—just a cheerful smiley face or a thumbs-up—without a second thought. Now, what if I told you that same emoji could secretly carry hidden instructions ...
Hackaday

Building Up Unicode Characters One Bit At A Time

The range of characters that can be represented by Unicode is truly bewildering. If there’s a symbol that was ever used to represent a sound or a concept anywhere in the world, chances are pretty good ...
Bleeping Computer

Chrome Extension Detects URL Homograph (Unicode) Attacks

The team from Phish.ai has developed and released a Google Chrome extension that can detect when users are accessing domains spelled using non-standard Unicode characters and warn the users about the ...