Title :
Towards a Semantics of Phish
Author_Institution :
Purple Streak, Inc., Woodland Hills, UT, USA
Abstract :
Phishing constitutes more than half of all reported security incident son the Internet. The attacks cause users to erroneously trust websites and enter sensitive data because the email notifications and the website look familiar. Our hypothesis is that familiarity can be defined formally using history data from the user´s computer, and effective presentation of the data can help users distinguishphishing messages from trustworthy messages.
Keywords :
Internet; Web sites; computer crime; trusted computing; unsolicited e-mail; Internet; email notifications; history data; phish semantics; phishing messages; security incidents; sensitive data; trust Web sites; trustworthy messages; user computer; Browsers; Electronic mail; HTML; History; Indexes; Internet; Security; familiarity; fraud; login; phish; security; semantics; trust; trusted site; website;
Conference_Titel :
Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW), 2012 IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2157-0
DOI :
10.1109/SPW.2012.12
