Punycode Phishing Attack

I was teaching my parents to check the authenticity of websites, especially the commonly used websites.

"See, the first thing to check is the "Secure" badge on the left side of browser address bar. If it is there, you are in a genuine page", I said.

"Not always !!!", my wife jumped in between.

"No way.."

"There are ways to trick even the smartest people. Just read this article then". 

The article is really interesting. To know more about Homograph attack, please read this link here.

Have fun by trying to create such links 

Creating empty file using command-line in Windows

Have you ever come across creating an empty file in Windows with command-line ? Here is a simple solution :

C:\SimpleTips> fsutil file createnew MyFile.txt 1000

Let's see what is happening here. FSUTIL is a command-line utility for performing FAT and NTFS file system operations. There are a few sub-commands for fsutil. We use file command which is intended for file related tasks. So basically this command creates a new file with name MyFile and size 1000 bytes.