Today all the cool languages and runtimes pledge allegiance to UTF-8, including Rust, Go, and Node.js (JavaScript itself prefers UTF-16 for internal encoding). Most code editors, from Visual Studio ...

Upper limit checks, such as "nicknames must be 10 characters or less," are often written on both the input field side and the ...

Security researchers have found new ways to build fake domains that resemble trusted brands while still appearing as readable ...

Researchers have identified new characters that can be used by malicious actors to create domain names that appear legitimate ...

Researchers say two characters available to typosquatters and phisherfolk can trick Chromium browsers into displaying lookalike URLs as genuine web addresses.

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Disney has turned to the head of the controversial AI company Character.AI to lead its tech efforts. The company announced Friday that Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand is joining Disney as a senior ...

Disney has hired its first-ever chief technology officer and in a curious twist, the new executive hails from an AI startup that the Magic Kingdom previously accused of infringing on its IP. Karandeep ...

Attackers are hiding finance-related words with invisible Unicode characters to evade email filters, exposing gaps between human-readable content and machine-processed text in modern security systems.

For two years, invisible Unicode characters have been the neat trick of AI security research. You hide instructions inside them. A person sees nothing. A language model reads them and does as it is ...

Threat actors have adopted the ASCII smuggling technique in phishing campaigns, using invisible Unicode characters to evade email security filters. ASCII smuggling has been used in AI prompt injection ...