An intrusion detection system for detecting phishing attacks

  • Authors:
  • Hasika Pamunuwa;Duminda Wijesekera;Csilla Farkas

  • Affiliations:
  • George Mason University, Fairfax, VA;George Mason University, Fairfax, VA;University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

  • Venue:
  • SDM'07 Proceedings of the 4th VLDB conference on Secure data management
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper we present a hybrid system to protect private data from phishing attacks. Our solution uses intrusion detection methods to identify potential phishing emails then relies on web crawlers to validate or reject this suspicion. We also use external information coming through RDF Site Summaries (RSS) alerts about potential phishing sites. Our two-layered phishing detection system reside on the server of the organization, thus it is not vulnerable to blocking attacks targeting web browsers.