Result Evaluation for Anti-Phishing Design Using Mutual Authentication Technique

Abstract

Phishing is a type of social engineering attack that aims to gather personal information from a user by delivering an email under the masquerade of a truthful division. Phishing attacks have been growing rapidly and try to damage financial and social aspect at the personal as well as industry altitude. Phishing has primary four different types of impact that are of concern to the personal and financial region. Impacts are Economic Loss, Lack of confidence on Internet, Difficulties in Fraud Investigation. In this paper we discuss effectiveness of various anti-Phishing toolbars against phishing attack. In first step we obtain 10 Phishing URL from Phish tank and examine them with five popular Anti-Phishing toolbars. In second step we examine test phishing website with same Anti-Phishing toolbars and our proposed system anti-Phishing design using mutual authentication approach, in last step we summarized the result. Finally we suggest the way to improve the anti-phishing tools with the minimum change in existing security system.