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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Phishing Attacks"”.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Quboid : a workstation for safer web interaction
… are exposed to the increasing threat of cyberattacks. Studies show that most of these attacks begin with a phishing attack. Phishing emails and websites may compromise user credentials or download unsolicited and malicious software. This thesis presents the design and implementation of Quboid, …
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Vulnerability exploration and data protection in end-user applications
… and (5) investigate cross-site input inference attacks on mobile Web users. In terms of end users, we focus on phishing attacks by investigating users’ susceptibility to both traditional phishing and Single Sign-On phishing. Specifically, we (6) explore the feasibility of creating extreme …
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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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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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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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Cybersecurity in the workplace: factors that influence positive cybersecurity behavior against phishing in South African institutions
… Africa one of the top cybersecurity threats is phishing. Furthermore, employees' responses to phishing emails can either bolster or weaken an organisation's cyber security. It is estimated that more than 90% of data breaches are due to successful phishing attacks. They bring the maximum benefits …
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Enhanced Password Security on Mobile Devices
… targets for password-stealing malware and other phishing attacks.</p><p>This dissertation explores the feasibility of providing strong protections for passwords input on mobile devices without requiring large changes to existing apps.</p><p>We propose two approaches to secure password entry on …
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Challenging Policies That Do Not Play Fair: A Credential Relevancy Framework Using Trust Negotiation Ontologies
… "play fair," such as those used in credential phishing attacks, malformed policies, and malicious strategies. This thesis motivates the need for a credential relevancy framework, outlines considerations for designing and implementing it (including topics that require further research), and …
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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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The Effectiveness of Firefly and Greywolf Algorithm Techniques in the Detection of Phishing Intrusion within Cloud-Based Systems
Phishing attacks continue to pose significant threats to cyber security, particularly in cloud-based systems that are heavily reliant on user authentication and remote access mechanisms. These attacks exploit system vulnerabilities to deceive users and gain unauthorized access to sensitive data, …
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Characterizing and Detecting Online Deception via Data-Driven Methods
… caused significant consequences is usually spear phishing. Spear-phishing emails come in a very small volume, target a small number of audiences, sometimes impersonate a trusted entity and use very specific content to redirect targets to a phishing website, where the attacker tricks targets …
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Robustifying Machine Learning based Security Applications
… The third component of this dissertation is phishing detection. By designing a novel measurement system, we search and detect phishing websites that adopt evasion techniques not only at the page content level but also at the web domain level. The key novelty is that our system is built on the …
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Designing Educational Video Games and Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Drill-Based Training
… projects. The first project was to improve anti-phishing training by simulating actual phishing attacks in a role-playing game. The key design challenge was to design an intensive workplace atmosphere that is easy for learners to make mistakes but also keeps the pleasure of completing tasks. My …
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