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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Phishing"”.
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Phishing Warden: Enhancing Content-Triggered Trust Negotiation to Prevent Phishing Attacks
Phishing attacks are spam e-mails that attempt to fool recipients into divulging their identifying information by posing as a message from a well known company and using that company's branding and logos. It is estimated that phishing attacks have cost bank and credit card customers $1.2 billion in …
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Knowledge modeling of phishing emails
… investigates whether or not malicious phishing emails are detected better when a meaningful representation of the email bodies is available. The natural language processing theory of Ontological Semantics Technology is used for its ability to model the knowledge representation present …
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A taxonomy of phishing research
Phishing is a widespread threat that has attracted a lot of attention from the security community. A significant amount of research has focused on designing automated mitigation techniques. However, these techniques have largely only proven successful at catching previously witnessed phishing …
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Fighting phishing at the user interface
The problem that this thesis concentrates on is phishing attacks. Phishing attacks use email messages and web sites designed to look as if they come from a known and legitimate organization, in order to deceive users into submitting their personal, financial, or computer account information online …
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Exploring the Anatomy of Ethereum Based Phishing
The increasing numbers of Ethereum scams are causing significant concerns within the blockchain community. Yet, our understanding of how these scams work is limited. In this study, we present the first comprehensive analysis of crypto scams on the example of large set of malicious Ethereum …
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Remedies to reduce user susceptibility to phishing attacks
… The study's ultimate purpose was to report phishing attacks on financial institutions and offer remedial solutions that can be implemented to reduce user susceptibility. To answer the study's main objectives, a qualitative approach was adopted. Semi-structured interviews and interview …
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Phishing on Open WLANs: Threat and Preventive Measure
Phishing is an internet security issue whose shape is still changing and size is still increasing. This thesis shows the possibility of a phishing attack on open, private Wireless LANs. Private WLANs which use a login page to authenticate users in hotels, airports and academic campuses are all …
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Study on Adversarial Robustness of Phishing Email Detection Models
Developing robust detection models against phishing emails has long been a main concerns of the cyber defense community. Currently public phishing/legitimate datasets are lack adversarial email examples which keeps the detection models vulnerable. To address this problem, we developed an augmented …
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Real-Time Intelligent Detection System Designs for Web Phishing Attacks
Phishing attacks are still a growing concern for many individuals and organizations worldwide. They steal user credentials and serve as a gateway for approximately 90% of cybersecurity breaches. Therefore, it has become an important issue that needs to be solved. Most organizations worldwide train …
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Using phishing to test social engineering awareness of financial employees
… in social engineering with an extra emphasis on phishing, then used phishing trials on financial employees to audit their awareness and knowledge of social engineering to determine if it lowers the vulnerability level to phishing attacks"--Document.</p>
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AN ENHANCEMENT ON TARGETED PHISHING ATTACKS IN THE STATE OF QATAR
The latest report by Kaspersky on Spam and Phishing, listed Qatar as one of the top 10 countries by percentage of email phishing and targeted phishing attacks. Since the Qatari economy has grown exponentially and become increasingly global in nature, email phishing and targeted phishing attacks …
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Security awareness by online banking users in Western Australian of phishing attacks
Phishing involves sending e-mails pretending to be from the legitimate financial institutions to recipients and asking for personal information such as username and password. It also redirects network traffic to malicious sites, deny network traffic to web services, and modify protection mechanisms …
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Understanding the human behavioural factors behind online learners’ susceptibility to phishing attacks
Phishing is an act of fraudulence to lure victims to respond to an illegitimate request for the sake of a financial or informational gain (Huang, Qian, and Wang, 2012). Phishing can jeopardize the security of online learning (e-Learning) systems. Phishing cannot be prevented by depending on …
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Phishing website detection using intelligent data mining techniques. Design and development of an intelligent association classification mining fuzzy based scheme for phishing website detection with an emphasis on E-banking.
Phishing techniques have not only grown in number, but also in sophistication. Phishers might have a lot of approaches and tactics to conduct a well-designed phishing attack. The targets of the phishing attacks, which are mainly on-line banking consumers and payment service providers, are facing …
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Design and development of a machine learning-based framework for phishing website detection
Phishing is a social engineering cyber attack to steal personal information from users. Attackers solicit individuals to click phishing links by sending them emails or social media text messages with deceptive content. With the development and applications of machine learning technology, solutions …
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Human Decision-Making In Phishing Email Detection: A Dual Process And Cue-Utilisation Approach
Phishing emails are the most common cyber security attack vector in Australia. This particular threat incurs huge costs to industry and falling victim can have substantial negative effects on peoples’ lives. Since technical solutions cannot intercept all such emails, users must detect these …
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A Measurement Approach to Understanding the Data Flow of Phishing From Attacker and Defender Perspectives
Phishing has been a big concern due to its active roles in recent data breaches and state- sponsored attacks. While existing works have extensively analyzed phishing websites and detection methods, there is still a limited understanding of the data flow of the phishing process. In this thesis, we …
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