Fighting Phishing at the User Interface
As people increasingly rely on Internet to do business, Internet fraud becomes a greater and greater threat to people’s Internet life. Internet fraud uses misleading messages online to deceive human users into forming a wrong belief and then to force them to take dangerous actions to compromise their or other people’s welfare. The main type of Internet fraud is phishing. Phishing uses emails and websites, which designed to look like emails and websites from legitimate organizations, to deceive users into disclosing their personal or financial information. The hostile party can then use this information for criminal purposes, such as identity theft and fraud. Users can be tricked into disclosing their information either by providing sensitive information via a web form or downloading and installing hostile codes, which search users’ computers or monitoring users’ online activities in order to get information.[attach]2120[/attach]
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