Data Mining for Security and Crime Detection

As the internet becomes more pervasive in all areas of human activity, attackers can use the anonymity of the cyberspace to commit crimes and compromise the IT infrastructure. As currently there is no generally implemented authentification technology the authors have to monitor the contents and relations of messages and internet traffic to detect infringements. In this paper, they present recent research on internet threats aiming at fraud or hampering critical information infrastructure. One approach concentrates on the rapid detection of phishing email, designed to make it next impossible for attackers to obtain financial resources or commit identity theft in this way.