Let's take a look at these three terms - homophones, homographs or homonyms - and find out their meaning because they affect us in one way or another. Read on to learn more! Homophones are words that ...

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AS Lynne Truss, in her delightful book titled Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation highlights the importance of punctuation. The book features a punctuation-fan joke ...

Do you know the difference between synonyms and homonyms? I don’t. And it’s not for lack of trying. I’ve read up on the subject multiple times. I’ve even reported what I’ve learned, writing here and ...

Just as attackers are finding new, increasingly sophisticated ways to try and evade the detection techniques used by antiviruses, they are also improving their methods designed to trick the user or at ...

A reader texted VERIFY with a screenshot that warned of a particularly deceptive strategy used by hackers. It included what appeared to be two examples of the same banking website URLs — except one of ...

The team from Phish.ai has developed and released a Google Chrome extension that can detect when users are accessing domains spelled using non-standard Unicode characters and warn the users about the ...

While trying to catch up with a huge backlog of recent email and potential blog topics, I came across this article that Graham Cluley posted a few days ago on Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) ...