Browser-side Countermeasures for Deceptive Phishing Attack

摘要：

Phishing is a form of online identity theft. Phishers use social engineering to steal victimspersonal identity data and financial account credentials. Social engineering schemes use spoofed e-mails to lure unsuspecting victims into counterfeit websites designed to trick recipients into divulging financial data such as credit card numbers, account usernames, passwords and social security numbers. This is called a deceptive phishing attack.In this paper, a thorough overview of a deceptive phishing attack and its countermeasure techniques, which is called anti-phishing, is presented. Firstly, technologies used by phishers and the definition, classification and future works of deceptive phishing attacks are discussed. Following with the existing browser-side anti-phishing techniques in literatures and research-stage technologies are shown, and a thorough analysis which includes the advantages and shortcomings of countermeasures is given.

关键词： phishing anti-phishing deceptive identity theft browser-side

作者: Huajun Huang Shaohong Zhong Junshan Tan

作者单位: College of Computer Science,Central South University of Forestry & Technology,Changsha,China,410004

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The Fifth International Conference on Information Assurance and Security(第五届信息保障与安全国际会议)

会议地点: 西安

会议语种:英文

页码: 352-355

在线出版日期: 2009-08-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）