Predicting phishing websites based on self-structuring neural network

Date
2014
Authors
Mohammad, Rami M.
Thabtah, Fadi
McCluskey, Lee
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Publisher
Springer London
Abstract
Internet has become an essential component of our everyday social and financial activities. Nevertheless, internet users may be vulnerable to different types of web threats, which may cause financial damages, identity theft, loss of private information, brand reputation damage and loss of customer’s confidence in e-commerce and online banking. Phishing is considered as a form of web threats that is defined as the art of impersonating a website of an honest enterprise aiming to obtain confidential information such as usernames, passwords and social security number. So far, there is no single solution that can capture every phishing attack. In this article, we proposed an intelligent model for predicting phishing attacks based on artificial neural network particularly self-structuring neural networks. Phishing is a continuous problem where features significant in determining the type of web pages are constantly changing. Thus, we need to constantly improve the network structure in order to cope with these changes. Our model solves this problem by automating the process of structuring the network and shows high acceptance for noisy data, fault tolerance and high prediction accuracy. Several experiments were conducted in our research, and the number of epochs differs in each experiment. From the results, we find that all produced structures have high generalization ability. © Springer-Verlag London 2013.
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This article is not available at CUD collection. The version of scholarly record of this article is published in Neural Computing and Applications (2014), available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-013-1490-z
Keywords
Data mining , Fault tolerance , Forecasting , Information dissemination , Internet , Mobile security , Neural networks , Security of data , Social networking (online) , Websites , Confidential information , Continuous problem , Generalization ability , Intelligent modeling , Phishing , Self structuring neural networks , Social security numbers , Web threat , Computer crime
Citation
Mohammad, R. M., Thabtah, F., & McCluskey, L. (2014). Predicting phishing websites based on self-structuring neural network. Neural Computing and Applications, 25(2), 443–458. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-013-1490-z
URI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00521-013-1490-z
 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12519/248
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E-Business