Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Preventing phishing attacks
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Application No.: US13564797Application Date: 2012-08-02
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Publication No.: US09747441B2Publication Date: 2017-08-29
- Inventor: Bin Wang , Lin Xie , Yin Song , Lei Zhang , Man Sun , Dong Li
- Applicant: Bin Wang , Lin Xie , Yin Song , Lei Zhang , Man Sun , Dong Li
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Yee & Associates, P.C.
- Agent Richard A. Wilhelm
- Priority: CN201110215504 20110729
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; G06F21/56 ; G06F21/54 ; G06F21/57

Abstract:
A method, system and program product for preventing phishing attacks, wherein the method comprises: acquiring links in a Web page; classifying the acquired links according link types; and determining whether a phishing attack exists according to the classified links, wherein the links are classified into two types: internal links belonging to the same domain as the address of the Web page, and external links belonging to a different domain from the address of the Web page. By carrying out the method or system according to the above one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, since it is first detected whether a Web page is a fake website of a phishing attack before displaying the reproduced Web page to the user and the user is warned upon detecting a fake website, unnecessary losses due to phishing attacks can be prevented.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130031628A1 Preventing Phishing Attacks Public/Granted day:2013-01-31
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