Literal and Conceptual Consistency for Anti-Phishing Solution
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Date
2019
Authors
AZEEZ, Nureni
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IEEE
Abstract
Phishing is a fraudulent attempt by cybercriminals where the target audience
is consulted by either a text message, phone call or e-mail, requesting a classified and
sensitive information relating to his financial transaction after presenting himself as a
legitimate agent to a financial institution. When the target finally falls into a phishing
attack tactics, there will be a terrible financial loss and identity theft. The target who
might not initially realize his source and current state of attack can reveal all the
confidential details such as credit card digit, online shopping account password, bank
verification digits and even employment details. To shield clients from phishing
assaults, numerous anti-phishing models have been proposed. It has been established
that some techniques that are currently being employed over the years to handle these
challenges are not sufficient and capable enough to do the needful in getting the lasting
solution. To find a solution to this issue, this work aims at identifying phishing sites in
order to guard internet users from being vulnerable to any form of phishing attacks by
verifying both the conceptual and literal consistencies between the Uniform Resource
Locator (URL) and the web contents. This technique was implemented using java and
PHP programming language. The results after the implementation show that the
application achieve 98% precision and accuracy; indicating that it is effective in
detecting various forms of phishing attacks.
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Phishing, cybercrime, legitimate, literal and conceptual
Citation
N.A Azeez and C.V Vyver (2019) "Verifying Literal and Conceptual Consistency for Anti-Phishing" IST-Africa 2019 Conference Nairobi, Kenya, 08 - 10 May 2019.