Establishing phishing provenance using orthographic features

2009 eCrime Researchers Summit, eCRIME '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ma, Liping ^a   Yearwood, John ^a   Watters, Paul ^a  

^a Graduate School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clustering; Feature elimination; Feature selection; Modified global k means

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER DOCUMENTS; CLUSTERING FEATURE; CYBERCRIMINALS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FEATURE SELECTION; K-MEANS; MESSAGE DETECTION; MODIFIED GLOBAL; NOVEL METHODS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION VALUES; PHISHING; REDUNDANT FEATURES; TOLERANCE VALUES;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 72449183090     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECRIME.2009.5342604     Document Type: Conference Paper

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