Security and identification indicators for browsers against spoofing and phishing attacks

Abstract

In spite of the use of standard Web security measures (SSL/TLS), users enter sensitive information such as passwords into fake Web sites. Such fake sites cause substantial damages to individuals and corporations. In this work, we identify several vulnerabilities of browsers, focusing on security and identification indicators.We present improved security and identification indicators, as we implemented in TrustBar, a browser extension we developed. With TrustBar, users can assign a name or logo to identify SSL/TLS-protected sites; if users did not assign a name or logo, TrustBar identifies protected sites by the name or logo of the site, and by the certificate authority (CA) who identified the site.We present usability experiments which compared TrustBar's indicators to the basic indicators available in most browsers (padlock, URL, and https prefix), and some relevant secure-usability principles.

An Intellect Learning on E-Mail Security and Fraud, Spam and Phishing

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An Enterprise Anti-phishing Framework

“…It is often easier for attackers to exploit human and social weaknesses of the defences than to defeat the technological countermeasures [18]. This is also evident in anti-phishing literature as most research focused on technical solutions such as: developing browser toolbars/plug-ins [23] preventative measures, characteristics and email structure [6], [20], [22], algorithms for detecting, identifying and measuring phishing emails and sites [8], [11], [32] and evaluating the effectiveness of web browser toolbar warnings/indicators [4], [7], [12], [31]. Many employees cannot identify the difference between a genuine and a spoofed website [4], [21].…”

SpoofKiller: You Can Teach People How to Pay, but Not How to Pay Attention

“…To attempt to improve how trust decisions are made, substantial efforts have been made to better convey statements of security to users [1,3,9,12,20,29] and more generally, to educate users about the need to pay attention to security indicators [19,23]. While we are not against such efforts, we think of them as last resortsapproaches to take in the absence of automated protection mechanisms.…”