Proactive Detection of Phishing Web Sites
Radu State
Interdisciplinary Center on Security and Trust in
Luxembourg
Date and Location: Thursday, October
17th, 2013, 12:45pm - 1:45pm @ SB 113.
Abstract
We will present in this talk an approach for pro-active detection of
phishing web sites. The main idea consists in learning from data the
underlying language model used by phishing attackers to generate
phishing URLs. We will show how approaches used in natural
language processing (HMMs) and semantic distances can be used to
learn and predict potential phishing web sites. We will review the
most features that can be used for such purposes and show
comparative results with alternative approaches.
Biography
Radu State is a senior researcher with the Interdisciplinary Center
on Security and Trust in Luxembourg. He was a former professor at
the University of Lorraine and a senior researcher at INRIA Nancy,
Grand Est. Having authored more then 100 papers, his research
interests cover network and system security and management. He
holds a Ph.D and a HDR from University of Lorraine and a M.Sc
from the Johns Hopkins University.