As it turns out, there was—and in some cases still is. The invisible characters, the result of a quirk in the Unicode text encoding standard, create an ideal covert channel that can make it ...

A security researcher has shed light on how invisible characters can be snuck into JavaScript code to introduce security risks, like backdoors, into your software. Not everything is what it seems ...

SEE ALSO: Apple uses Siri in workaround for iPhone Messages crash bug Instead, a thousands-character-long string of invisible Unicode text, which accompanies the dot, does the damage. The text is ...

Of course, I had to create a shortcut that simplifies this process and asks you how many times you’d like to repeat the invisible character in a text string. You can find the shortcut below; you ...