Intelligent Approach toward Anti-Phishing using Two Factor Authentication

Phishing is an attempt to commit fraud via social engineering. The impact is the breach of information security through the compromise of confidential data. Customers can access their banking accounts from anywhere in the world using their login ID and password. However, the use of password does not provide adequate protection against Internet fraud such as phishing. Phishing exploits this vulnerability to fraudulently acquire sensitive personal information, such as username, passwords and/or credit card details. Usually this is achieved by masquerading as a trustworthy person or business with an apparently legitimate request for information. In this paper we have proposed a new approach named as IAPC which includes captcha followed by two factor authentication. Two factor authentication is carried out using steganography mechanism to hide the password inside an image. MD5 and DES (Data Encryption Standard) encryption techniques are used to encrypt the hidden password.