Questions tagged [unicode]
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What applications are at risk from "Backwards Unicode Names" and what are the mitigations?
There is a vulnerability where some applications (such as explorer.exe) respond to Unicode characters that change the direction of the text (right-to-left vs left-to-right). This may be used to mask an EXE file into one that looks like a text…
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SQL Injection via Unicode
My team currently uses ASP.NET with MS SQL Server for our software.
Security has only become important since I started, in which there is injection vulnerabilities everywhere.
Due to current integration with Oracle and MS SQL the business decision…
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Whatsapp Unicode Phishing Link
I have been receiving messages from relatives that goes like this:
AirAsia is rewarding everyone with 2 free plane tickets to celebrate 24 Years of quality service. Get your free ticket at: http://airasîa.com/free-tickets/ .
which is a unicode…
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XSS via Unicode
Reading about XSS and its countermeasures from http://www.xssed.com/xssinfo#Avoiding_XSS_vulnerabilities , it says (in the 2nd last paragraph of the link) that:
[…] support for Unicode character sets by browsers could leave an application open to…
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