Phishing/Spam is an attack that deals with social engineering methodology to illegally acquire and use someone else’s data on behalf of legitimate website for own benefits. Phishing emails are messages designed to fool the recipient into handing over personal information, such as login names, passwords, credit card numbers, account credentials, social security numbers etc. Fraudulent emails har...

There are currently dozens of freely available tools to combat phishing and other web-based scams, many of which are web browser extensions that warn users when they are browsing a suspected phishing site. We developed an automated test bed for testing antiphishing tools. We used 200 verified phishing URLs from two sources and 516 legitimate URLs to test the effectiveness of 10 popular anti-phi...

Phishing is an increasingly more prevalent form of online, social engineered scams that escalate costs and risks to society year to year. This study demonstrates an association between anti-phishing training techniques used in previous research and individual differences which could affect phishing susceptibility. Results indicated that anti-phishing training in both a simple comic and more com...

Phishing is the combination of social engineering and technical exploits designed to convince a victim to provide personal information, usually for the monetary gain of the attacker. Phishing has become the most popular practice among the criminals of the Web. Phishing attacks are becoming more frequent and sophisticated. The impact of phishing is drastic and significant since it can involve th...

One of the biggest problems with the Internet technology is the unwanted spam emails. The welldisguised phishing email comes in as part of the spam and makes its entry into one’s inbox quite frequently nowadays. While phishing is normally considered a consumer issue, the fraudulent tactics the phishers use are now intimidating the corporate sector as well. In this paper, we analyze the various ...

Phishing is a form of identity theft in which an attacker attempts to elicit confidential information from unsuspecting victims. While in the past there has been significant work on defending from phishing, much less is known about the tools and techniques used by attackers, i.e., phishers. Of particular importance to understanding the phishers’ methods and motivations are phishing kits, packag...

This poster present the result of the comparison of the subject and object of verbs in their usage between phishing emails and legitimate emails. This research aims to investigate whether subjects and objects of verbs can be distinguishable features for phishing detection. This poster also reports the same comparison between old and up-to-date phishing emails to explore if patterns in phishing ...

Detecting and identifying e-banking Phishing websites is really a complex and dynamic problem involving many factors and criteria. Because of the subjective considerations and the ambiguities involved in the detection, Fuzzy Data Mining Techniques can be an effective tool in assessing and identifying e-banking phishing websites since it offers a more natural way of dealing with quality factors ...

Phishing attacks, in which scammers send emails and other messages to con victims into providing their login credentials and personal information, snare millions of victims each year [43]. A variety of efforts aim to combat phishing through law enforcement, automated detection, and end-user education. Researchers have studied why people fall for phishing attacks; however, little research has be...

Phishing is the spoofing of Internet websites or emails aimed at tricking users into entering sensitive information, with such goals as financial or identity theft. The current study sought to determine whether age is associated with increased susceptibility to phishing and whether tests of executive functioning can predict phishing susceptibility. A total of 193 cognitively intact participants...