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Microsoft Corporation, IDN Homograph Attack, And How To Keep Your Data Safe
Part I: The Microsoft Corporation, IDN Homograph Attack, and How to Keep Your Data Secure
Microsoft Corporation is a multinational company that provides a wide range of products and services for personal computers, servers, phones, tablets and other devices. Microsoft has been the world’s largest software maker by revenue since 2014.
In November 2017, Microsoft faced a major security breach in their web-based email service. The attack was known as the IDN Homograph Attack. The attack took advantage of the fact that many people use Latin characters to represent non-Latin languages such as Chinese or Russian due to limitations in input systems. This means that some characters are visually similar to others and can be used in place of each other on web pages without being detected by the browser or email applications.
The attack affected Outlook mailboxes and led to unauthorized access to customer emails which could have resulted in sensitive information
Part II: A list of useful online tools and websites for Microsoft account security
Microsoft account is one of the most popular accounts to use for logging into both Windows and Microsoft Office. It is also the most common email address for Outlook, Skype, Xbox and other Microsoft services. In this section, we will provide a list of useful online tools and websites for account security.
-https://accountsecurity.microsoft.com/en-us/securitycenter/default
-https://www.microsoftpasswordreset.com
-https://www.microsoftpasswordrecoverytoolkitonline.com
-http://www.accountkillerapponline.com
Conclusion: Conclusion of the blog post on Microsoft Corporation's IT department's advice on how to protect against IDN homographs.
The Complete Guide to Microsoft Corporation, IDN Homograph Attack, and Microsoft Office 365
Introduction: What is a homograph attack?
Homograph attack is a form of phishing attack where the attacker tricks the victim into thinking that he is logging in to a legitimate website.
In this type of attack, the attacker can register a domain name that looks very similar to the legitimate domain name. For example, instead of registering “google.com”, they might register “gogle.com” or “googel.com” and then send out an email with links to their fake site. When you click on these links, it will take you to their fake website which will steal your credentials and login information for your account with Google or any other service you use on that site such as Facebook or Twitter.
How the Microsoft Corporation IDN Homograph Attack Happened
In this article, we are going to explore how the Microsoft Corporation IDN homograph attack happened and what steps Microsoft has taken to prevent future attacks.
The IDN homograph attack is a form of phishing attack where a user is tricked into entering their credentials on a fake website that looks like the legitimate site. The most common example of this type of attack is when an attacker registers a domain name that contains both an English and non-Latin character, such as “xn--pple-43d.com” or “xn--pple-43d.net”, which would be pronounced as apple-apple.com or apple-apple.net in English but ioxin) in Chinese pinyin.
What IDNs Look Like in the Real World
Internationalized domain names (IDNs) are domain names that can be written in non-ASCII characters. The Internationalized Domain Name system is a system that encodes the language and script of a domain name. IDNs are not only used by people who speak languages with non-Latin alphabets, but also by people who want to use multilingual domains in their own language.
In this section, I will explore what IDNs look like in the real world and how they work.
The first thing to know about IDNs is that there are two types: roundtrip IDNs and punycode IDN. Roundtrip IDs are those which can be translated back and forth between ASCII-based domain names and their Unicode equivalents without loss of meaning or functionality. Puny