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An Effective Strategy for Identifying Phishing Websites Using Class-Based Approach

December 1, 2011 12:00am PST

This paper presents a novel approach to overcome the difficulty and complexity in detecting and predicting social networking phishing website. The authors proposed an intelligent resilient and...

Provided by: International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research

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A Multi-Way Authentication Using Embedded Public Key

December 1, 2011 12:00am PST

In this paper, the authors introduce the concept of three way security using Public-Key and the usage of Phishing mechanism. Whenever the user is enters the username and password, a mobile alert...

Provided by: International Journal on Computer Science and Technology (IJCST)

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A Phishing Model and Its Applications to Evaluating Phishing Attacks

November 17, 2011 12:00am PST

Phishing is a growing threat to Internet users and causes billions of dollars in damage every year. In this paper, the authors present a theoretical yet practical model to study this threat in a...

Provided by: Sam Houston State University

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A Wide Scale Survey on Botnet

November 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

Among the diverse forms of malware, Botnet is the serious threat which occurs commonly in today's cyber attacks and cyber crimes. Botnet are designed to perform predefined functions in an...

Provided by: International Journal of Computer Applications

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Techniques and Tools for Forensic Investigation of E-mail

November 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

E-mail has emerged as the most important application on Internet for communication of messages, delivery of documents and carrying out of transactions and is used not only from computers but many...

Provided by: University Of Kashmir

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Unicorn: Two-Factor Attestation for Data Security

October 21, 2011 12:00am PDT

Malware and phishing are two major threats for users seeking to perform security-sensitive tasks using computers to-day. To mitigate these threats, the authors introduce Unicorn, which combines...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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Implementing a Web Browser with Phishing Detection Techniques

October 3, 2011 12:00am PDT

Phishing is the combination of social engineering and technical exploits designed to convince a victim to provide personal information, usually for the monetary gain of the attacker. Phishing has...

Provided by: Cornell University

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Phishing Websites Detection Based on Phishing Characteristics in the Webpage Source Code

October 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the international standards organization for the World Wide Web (www). It develops standards, specifications and recommendations to enhance the interoperability...

Provided by: IRPN Press

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Defeating spam in enterprise email

September 14, 2011 12:00am PDT

Enterprises should expect the onslaught of spam to continue. Botnets aren't going away. Criminal syndicates won't abandon a profitable business. In 2011 and beyond, attacks will likely become more...

Provided by: Proofpoint

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Top three careers for the ethically challenged IT pro

September 9, 2011 6:45am PDT

While current employment stats for IT pros fluctuate, there's always a niche for those who are not burdened by a sense of ethics or decency.

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A look back with former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz

September 8, 2011 6:18am PDT

In June of 2010, CNET sat down with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz to get her thoughts on everything from the company's burgeoning content strategy to combating spam in Yahoo Mail to deeper integration...

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Detection of Phishing e-Mail

September 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

Phishing has increased enormously over the last years and is a serious threat to global security and economy. Criminals are trying to convince unsuspecting online users to reveal sensitive...

Provided by: International Journal on Computer Science and Technology (IJCST)

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Building an Active Computer Security Ethics Community

August 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

Modern threats such as Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, worms, viruses, phishing, and botnets underscore the need for Internet security research in an increasingly networked and computationally...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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Identifying Botnets by Capturing Group Activities in DNS Traffic

July 30, 2011 12:00am PDT

Botnets have become the main vehicle to conduct online crimes such as DDoS, spam, phishing and identity theft. Even though numerous efforts have been directed towards detection of botnets,...

Provided by: Reed Business Information

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Trustworthy and Effective Communication of Cybersecurity Risks: A Review

July 19, 2011 12:00am PDT

Slowly but surely, academia and industry are fully accepting the importance of the human element as it pertains to achieving security and trust. Undoubtedly, one of the main motivations for this...

Provided by: University of Warwick

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GFI MailEssentials Complete Appliance Demonstration

July 13, 2011 12:00am PDT

View a 20-minute product demo of this comprehensive email protection solution that combines antivirus, anti-spam and attachment filtering in a robust, highly scalable, easy-to-manage platform.

Provided by: GFI Software

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Detection of Phishing Websites and Secure Transactions

July 8, 2011 12:00am PDT

Phishing is an electronic online identity theft in which the attackers use a combination of social engineering and web site spoofing techniques to trick a user into revealing confidential...

Provided by: Interscience Open Access Journals

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Dynamic DNS - A Survey of the Abuse Mechanisms Affecting It and the Growing Problem for Network Defenders Defending Against Them

July 5, 2011 12:00am PDT

Dynamic DNS although generally used to provide legitimate services has, like so many other technologies in use today, been exploited for a variety of criminal purposes. Dynamic DNS is being...

Provided by: VulnerabilityAssessment

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Five tips for protecting customer data

June 13, 2011 6:07am PDT

Security technologies can only do so much to protect customer data. You also need to evaluate how you store that data and how you can control access to it.

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Enhanced E-Mail Authentication Against Spoofing Attacks to Mitigate Phishing

June 3, 2011 12:00am PDT

Phishing is the combination of social engineering and technical exploits which has adverse effects aiming at the monetary gain of the attacker (phisher). E-mail authentication is a technology...

Provided by: EuroJournals