A Framework for Smart Trusted Indicators for Browsers (STIB)

Web browsers currently have security indicators which provide security features that notify users of malicious or un-trusted websites. Most of these security indicators are normally synced with some black list data base that has a list with known websites that are known to be malicious. When a user surfs a website that is identified in the black list data base, the security indicators then notify the user with a warning indicating that the current site has been identified as a malicious or un-trusted site and give the user the option to continue or exit the current site. Due to the fact that these black list data base may not possibly contain every malicious site, users may come across a website that they feel that may be a an un-trusted site but have not received a warning message from the security indicator indicating otherwise. In this paper, we propose an extension security indicator called Smart Trusted indicators for Browsers, STIB, which will perform an extensive web activities history check on the current site determining how often that website is viewed or transacted to provide the user with more information about the site and the confidentiality of the legitimacy of the site.