| Phishing attacks are becoming a very common way to pirate information on the Internet and are also the hardest to trace. The goal of this new and recent method of hacking is very dangerous because it is one of the simplest as it depends only on user trust. The objective is to cheat a user into divulging personal information by leading them to an unsafe website that looks genuine and similar to the original website the user may be used to visiting. This leads to identity theft and the exploitation of vulnerabilities from the fact that most users will not second guess the authenticity of the link they use. This report focuses mainly on keeping users aware of the links they use. It also aims to create a filter to analyze message content for information integrity in order to assure that potentially unsafe websites are clearly noted in the message before the user mistakenly assumes the opposite. |
