Real-Time Client-Side Phishing Prevention

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Perustieteiden korkeakoulu | Master's thesis
Date
2016-08-24
Department
Major/Subject
Tietoliikenneohjelmistot
Mcode
T3005
Degree programme
Master’s Programme in Computer, Communication and Information Sciences
Language
en
Pages
76 + 13
Series
Abstract
In the last decades researchers and companies have been working to deploy effective solutions to steer users away from phishing websites. These solutions are typically based on servers or blacklisting systems. Such approaches have several drawbacks: they compromise user privacy, rely on off-line analysis, are not robust against adaptive attacks and do not provide much guidance to the users in their warnings. To address these limitations, we developed a fast real-time client-side phishing prevention software that implements a phishing detection technique recently developed by Marchal et al. It extracts information from the visited webpage and detects if it is a phish to warn the user. It is also able to detect the website that the phish is trying to mimic and propose a redirection to the legitimate domain. Furthermore, to attest the validity of our solution we performed two user studies to evaluate the usability of the interface and the program's impact on user experience.
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Supervisor
Asokan, N
Thesis advisor
Marchal, Samuel
Keywords
phishing, prevention, security, privacy
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