AN ANTI PHISHING STRATEGY BASED ON VISUAL SIMILARITY ASSESSMENT

ABSTRACT
Anti-phishing strategy uses visual characteristics to identify potential phishing sites and measure suspicious pages similarity to actual sites registered with the system. The first of two sequential processes in the SiteWatcher system runs on local email servers and monitors emails for keywords and suspicious URLs. The second process then compares the potential phishing pages against actual pages and assesses visual similarities between them in terms of key regions, page layouts, and overall styles. The approach is designed to be part of an enterprise anti-phishing solution.


TABLE OF CONTENT
TITLE PAGE                                   
CERTIFICATION                               
APPROVAL                               
DEDICATION                                   
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT                       
ABSTRACT                                   
TABLE OF CONTENT               

                
CHAPTER ONE
1.0    INTRODUCTION                           
1.1    STATEMENT OF PROBLEM                       
1.2    PURPOSE OF STUDY                           
1.3    AIMS AND OBJECTIVES                        
1.4    SCOPE/DELIMITATIONS                       
1.5    LIMITATIONS/CONSTRAINTS                       
1.6    DEFINITION OF TERMS                        
CHAPTER TWO
2.0    LITERATURE REVIEW                            
CHAPTER THREE
3.0    METHODS FOR FACT FINDING AND DETAILED DISCUSSIONS OF THE SYSTEM
3.1     METHODOLOGIES FOR FACT-FINDING
3.2    DISCUSSIONS             
CHAPTER FOUR
4.0    FUTURES, IMPLICATIONS AND CHALLENGES OF THE SYSTEM
4.1    FUTURES
4.2    IMPLICATIONS
4.3    CHALLENGES
CHAPTER FIVE
5.0    RECOMMENDATIONS, SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION       
5.1    RECOMMENDATION                           
5.2    SUMMARY                               
5.3    CONCLUSION                               
5.4    REFERENCES