Pishing Attacks in Network Security

In the last few decays, phishing tricks have swiftly grown posing enormous threat to worldwide Internet security. These days, phishing attacks are one of the utmost common and serious threats over internet whereas cyber attackers are trying to steal users personal information regarding their financial assets by using different malwares and social engineering. The usual way of phishing attacks use some electronic messaging like emails or by providing the links that appears to be legitimate sites but actually these sites are malicious and controlled by the attackers. To detect phishing attack at high accuracy is always a crucial and has been great issue of interest. Recently many detection techniques has been introduced which are specifically designed for the detection of phishing with extreme accuracy. In this report the phishing attacks are discuss with some of the techniques which are proposed in various literature

The 2017 homograph browser attack mitigation survey

Since their inception, International Domain Names (IDN) have allowed for non-Latin characters to be entered into domain names. This feature has led to attackers forging malicious domains which appear identical to the Latin counterpart. This is achieved through using non-Latin characters which appear identical to their Latin counterpart. This attack is referred to as a Homograph attack. This research continues the work of Hannay and Bolan (2009), and Hannay and Baatard (2012), which assessed the mitigation methods incorporated by web browsers in mitigating IDN homograph attacks. Since these works, time IDN mitigation algorithms have been altered, such as the one used in Mozilla Firefox (Gerv, 2017). This study evaluates browser homograph attack mitigation strategies in browsers released post-2011. In this study, we find a high level of effective multi-script mitigation across the browser families surveyed. Notable exceptions to this include a single version of Firefox in which the mitigation features were not present and ongoing omission of mitigation against single script attacks

The Proceedings of 15th Australian Information Security Management Conference, 5-6 December, 2017, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia

Conference Foreword The annual Security Congress, run by the Security Research Institute at Edith Cowan University, includes the Australian Information Security and Management Conference. Now in its fifteenth year, the conference remains popular for its diverse content and mixture of technical research and discussion papers. The area of information security and management continues to be varied, as is reflected by the wide variety of subject matter covered by the papers this year. The papers cover topics from vulnerabilities in “Internet of Things” protocols through to improvements in biometric identification algorithms and surveillance camera weaknesses. The conference has drawn interest and papers from within Australia and internationally. All submitted papers were subject to a double blind peer review process. Twenty two papers were submitted from Australia and overseas, of which eighteen were accepted for final presentation and publication. We wish to thank the reviewers for kindly volunteering their time and expertise in support of this event. We would also like to thank the conference committee who have organised yet another successful congress. Events such as this are impossible without the tireless efforts of such people in reviewing and editing the conference papers, and assisting with the planning, organisation and execution of the conference. To our sponsors, also a vote of thanks for both the financial and moral support provided to the conference. Finally, thank you to the administrative and technical staff, and students of the ECU Security Research Institute for their contributions to the running of the conference