Effective protection against phishing and web spoofing

  • Authors:
  • Rolf Oppliger;Sebastian Gajek

  • Affiliations:
  • eSECURITY Technologies, Gümligen, Switzerland;Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany

  • Venue:
  • CMS'05 Proceedings of the 9th IFIP TC-6 TC-11 international conference on Communications and Multimedia Security
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Phishing and Web spoofing have proliferated and become a major nuisance on the Internet. The attacks are difficult to protect against, mainly because they target non-cryptographic components, such as the user or the user-browser interface. This means that cryptographic security protocols, such as the SSL/TLS protocol, do not provide a complete solution to tackle the attacks and must be complemented by additional protection mechanisms. In this paper, we summarize, discuss, and evaluate the effectiveness of such mechanisms against (large-scale) phishing and Web spoofing attacks.