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Online Detection and Prevention of Phishing Attacks

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Overview Phishing is a new type of network attack where the attacker creates a replica of an existing Web page to fool users into submitting personal, financial, or password data to what they think is their service provides' Web site. This paper proposes a new end-host based anti-phishing algorithm, which it call LinkGuard, by utilizing the generic characteristics of the hyperlinks in phishing attacks. These characteristics are derived by analyzing the phishing data archive provided by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Because it is based on the generic characteristics of phishing attacks, LinkGuard can detect not only known but also unknown phishing attacks. It have implemented LinkGuard in Windows XP.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2006
Format	White Papers
Topics	Network Security, Security Management

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