Improved phishing detection using model-based features

5th Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, CEAS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bergholz, André ^a   Paaß, Gerhard ^a   Reichartz, Frank ^a   Strobel, Siehyun ^a   Chang, Jeong Ho ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER IAIS   (Germany)

^b Konan Technology Inc   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CRIME; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; MARKOV PROCESSES;

DYNAMIC MARKOV CHAINS; INTERNET COMMUNICATION; ONLINE USERS; PERSONAL INFORMATION; PHISHING DETECTIONS; SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS; STATISTICAL FILTERING; TEST CORPUS;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 84904815319     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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