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Phishing & Pharming Methods and Safeguards
Baber Aslam and Lei Wu
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Outline
Threats to Identity Theft Phishing
– Definition
– Methods Pharming
– Definition
– Methods Safeguards Project aims
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Identify Theft
Two major Identity theft threats Aim at stealing personal sensitive data
– ID & password
–Passport information
–SSN
–Bank account numbers
–Credit card numbers
–etc
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Statistical Highlights for 2nd Half, 2008
Phishing Activity Trends Report, 2nd Half 2008
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Statistical Highlights for 2nd Half, 2008
Phishing Activity Trends Report, 2nd Half 2008
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Phishing
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Methods / Techniques
Misspelled URLs – (http://www.eccs.ucf.edu/account)
Spoofing URLs (http://[email protected])
Javascript International Domain Names
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Pharming
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Methods / Techniques
Email Viruses–Alters the computer’s host file
DNS Poisoning–Nothing on computer changes
–The company’s website is “hijacked” Web Cache Poisoning Drive-by pharming
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Safeguards
Specialized “Anti-Phishing” Software Spam filters Multifactor authentication Challenge Questions Secure connections DNS protection
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The project aims at studying the methods of Phishing and Pharming, and analyzing the effectiveness of the safeguards against these methods.
Proposal
