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ArchiveJune 2017

Petya Disk encryption

A massive attack is underway. This has started in the Ukrain but is spreading to the rest of the world fast.  Yes it is about ransomware. It is different than perhaps the one you know. Petya is the name of this ransomware and it is also leveraging...

Punycode and the art of phishing

Punycode as described in rfc 3492 “is a simple and efficient transfer encoding syntax designed  for use with Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA). It uniquely and reversibly transforms a Unicode string into an ASCII string...