Jan 09, 2026 - Viktor Markopoulos - We often trust what we see. In cybersecurity, we are trained to look for suspicious links, strange file extensions, or garbled code. But what if the threat looked ...
Our computers can display an astonishing range of symbols. Unicode alone defines more than 150,000 characters, covering ...
Unicode, the standard for character encoding, contains a wide variety of characters used around the world, including many ' invisible Unicode characters, ' some of which are invisible 'zero-width ...
Here we explain a little bit about Unicode and why we may encounter UnicodeDecodeError or UnicodeEncodeError exceptions. While much of the world runs on UTF-8 these ...
Bluegrass and Americana star Billy Strings invited his Lexington, Ky. crowd to join him in mourning the death of his mother, Debra Apostal, on Friday night (June 20.) Apostal died the day prior, on ...
A malicious package in the Node Package Manager index uses invisible Unicode characters to hide malicious code and Google Calendar links to host the URL for the command-and-control location. The ...
In a nutshell: A recent blog post by software engineer Paul Butler has shed light on a novel technique for concealing data within Unicode characters, specifically emojis. The post explains the concept ...
What if there was a way to sneak malicious instructions into Claude, Copilot, or other top-name AI chatbots and get confidential data out of them by using characters large language models can ...
This is a header-only C++ library containing some helper functions to convert Unicode strings to upper and lower cases. Related blog post: https://giodicanio.com/2024 ...
When filmmaker Theo Schear saw harpist Mary Lattimore performing by the river in Austin, Texas in 2019, he was transfixed. "It was this really magical performance. The harp was just beautiful in the ...
Google revealed details of two new crawlers that are optimized for scraping image and video content for “research and development” purposes. Although the documentation doesn’t explicitly say so, it’s ...