Could malicious backdoors be hiding in your code, that otherwise appears perfectly clean to the human eye and text editors alike? A security researcher has shed light on how invisible characters ...

Each byte in the file contains one character that conforms to the standard ASCII code (see ASCII chart). Program source code, batch files, macros and scripts are straight text and stored as ASCII ...

What is the ASCII code chart? Codes 0 to 31 are not used for characters They are called control characters because they are used for actions like:. Carriage return (CR). Bell (BEL). Codes 65 to 90 ...

Each ASCII character in the JavaScript payload is converted into an 8-bit binary representation, and the binary values (ones and zeros) in it are replaced with invisible Hangul characters.

Does exactly what it says on the tin. Works in all modern browsers. The demo lets you choose between an iPod ad and “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley. You know what to do. \\[via Hacker ...