Authors : C. Emilin Shyni and S. Swamynathan
Abstract: Internet which is an appealing and fast way for distributing wide range of resources and services has become an economical way for dispensation of electronic information. The tremendous growth of internet in today’s era has reduced the use of papers as electronic information is preferred over study distribution. Phishing is a delinquent technique of stealing victim’s personal information by sending them spoofed emails urging them to visit a forged web page that looks like a true one. Here, researchers proposed a watermarking based approach and heuristics techniques and its implementation for extenuating phishing attacks a structure of web based identity stealing. The watermark message carries a secret message which is intended to be distinctive for each user. Phishing websites have their own methodological and community problems with each other and are very complicated. In this study, phishing detection and validation is implemented as a web service. Web services are independent layered module in a web application which process the user supplied URL as input and detect and prevent phishing.
C. Emilin Shyni and S. Swamynathan , 2013. Online Identity Phish: Online Transaction Against Phishing Attacks. International Journal of Soft Computing, 8: 175-180.