Detection and prevention of phishing attack using dynamic watermarking

Akhilendra Pratap Singh, Vimal Kumar, Sandeep Singh Sengar, Manoj Wairiya

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Abstract

Nowadays phishing attacks are increasing with burgeoning rate which is highly problematic for social and financial websites.Many antiphishing mechanisms currently focused to verify whether a web site is genuine or not. This paper proposes a novel anti-phishing approach based on Dynamic watermarking technique. According to this approach user will be asked for some additional information like watermark image, its fixing position and secret key at the time of user's registration and these credentials of particular user will be changed at per login. During each login phase a user will verify the authentic watermark with its position and decide the legitimacy of website.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation Technology and Mobile Communication - International Conference, AIM 2011, Proceedings
Pages132-137
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Conference on Information Technology and Mobile Communication, AIM 2011 - Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
Duration: 21 Apr 201122 Apr 2011

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume147
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Information Technology and Mobile Communication, AIM 2011
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityNagpur, Maharashtra
Period21/04/1122/04/11

Keywords

  • Authentication
  • Phishing Attack
  • Watermarking
  • Website

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