Comment Check out this Firefox-only exploit (Score 2, Informative) 630
Details here: http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt
Watch the exploit in action here: http://www.shmoo.com/idn/
To patch this (in most browsers):
1) Goto your Firefox address bar. Enter about:config and press enter.
Firefox will load the (large!) config page.
2) Scroll down to the line beginning network.enableIDN -- this is
International Domain Name support, and it is causing the problem here. We
want to turn this off -- for now. Ideally we want to support international
domain names, but not with this problem.
3) Double-click the network.enableIDN label, and Firefox will show a dialog
set to 'true'. Change it to 'false' (no quotes!), click Ok. You are done.
4) Go check out the shmoo demo (above) again and notice it no longer works.