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Opera Fixes IDN Spoofing in Opera 8.0 Beta 2

Posted by Zonk on from the patch-patch-patch-the-stupid-ogre! dept.

Opera Watch writes "Opera has introduced a fix for the IDN spoofing security vulnerability in its latest beta version. The new version, Opera 8.0 beta 2, was released today on its FTP directory. No official announcement from Opera yet. Opera has created a white list for safe top-level domain names which include .no, .jp, .de, .se, .kr, .tw, .cn, .at, .dk, .ch, and .li. Sites not in the white list will show the encoded domain (with the IDN characters) in the URL field. The list is updated automatically when Opera checks for a new version."

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  1. discussion @ opera.com by Arctic+Dragon · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's been 'unofficially' announced in the Opera Forums