Phishing detection using stochastic learning-based weak estimators

IEEE SSCI 2011: Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence - CICS 2011: 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 55-59

  Zhan, Justin ^a   Thomas, Lijo ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomaly Detection; Estimators; Phishing; Spam

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY DETECTION; DETECTION PROBLEMS; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; ESTIMATORS; NON-STATIONARY ENVIRONMENT; NONSTATIONARY; NORMAL BEHAVIOR; ON-LINE BANKING; PHISHING; PHISHING ATTACKS; PHISHING DETECTIONS; SEASONAL CHANGES; SPAM; TEMPERATURE PATTERNS; UNDERLYING DISTRIBUTION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ESTIMATION; SECURITY OF DATA;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 79961174131     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CICYBS.2011.5949409     Document Type: Conference Paper

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