Phishing, or web spoofing, is a growing problem: the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) received almost 14,000 unique phishing reports in August 2005, a 56% jump over the number of reports in December 2004 [3]. $150,000 [17]. For financial institutions, phishing is a particularly insidious problem, since trust forms the foundation for customer relationships, and phishing attacks undermine confi...

The instances of privacy and security have reached the point where they cannot be ignored. There has been a rise in data breaches fraud, particularly banks, healthcare, government sectors. In today’s world, many organizations offer their specialists bug report programs that help them find flaws applications. breach on its own does not necessarily constitute threat or attack. Cyber-attacks allow...

There are currently dozens of freely available tools to combat phishing and other web-based scams, many of which are web browser extensions that warn users when they are browsing a suspected phishing site. We developed an automated test bed for testing antiphishing tools. We used 200 verified phishing URLs from two sources and 516 legitimate URLs to test the effectiveness of 10 popular anti-phi...

Phishing is a prevalent issue of today’s Internet. Previous approaches to counter phishing do not draw on a crucial factor to combat the threat the users themselves. We believe user education about the dangers of the Internet is a further key strategy to combat phishing. For this reason, we developed an Android app, a game called –NoPhish–, which educates the user in the detection of phishing U...

Article history: Received 4 August 2007 Received in revised form 24 January 2008 Accepted 5 March 2008 Available online 13 March 2008 Phishing has enormous impacts on the financial industry. This research aims to investigate antiphishing preparedness of banks in Hong Kong. Web sites of registered Hong Kong banks are analyzed. Information related to phishing and anti-phishing measures adopted by...