Own any domain exploit, no defense exists
A recent post regarding an exposed exploit in all browsers suggests that one can own any domain using International Domain Name (IDN) to spoof current domains.
For example:
The domain: http://www.pаypal.com/ should be interperted by all browsers into http://www.paypal.com/ but present the page www.xn--pypal-4ve.com and therefore one can ’steal’ any domain name / ssl.
At the moment there is no idea how to fix this, nor do the developers.
For more information: Description and Live Example
Note: I tried all the above suggested ideas / links on ‘Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0′ and could not make this work. Could you?
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