Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8′, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding… ...

Unicode, the wonderful extension to to ASCII that gives us gems like “ ”, “⌨”, and “☕”, has had some unexpected security ramifications. The most common problems … ...

The difference can be easily discerned by using any Unicode encoder/decoder, such as the ASCII Smuggler. Rehberger created the tool for converting the invisible range of Unicode characters into ...