CASTLE: A social framework for collaborative anti-phishing databases

Arash Nourian; Sameer Ishtiaq; Muthucumaru Maheswaran

5th International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, Worksharing

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CASTLE: A social framework for collaborative anti-phishing databases

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.COLLABORATECOM2009.8310,
    author={Arash Nourian and Sameer Ishtiaq and Muthucumaru Maheswaran},
    title={CASTLE: A social framework for collaborative anti-phishing databases},
    proceedings={5th International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications, Worksharing},
    proceedings_a={COLLABORATECOM},
    year={2009},
    month={12},
    keywords={Collaboration Computer science Databases IP networks Internet Network servers Prototypes Social factors Uniform resource locators Web server},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.COLLABORATECOM2009.8310}
}

Arash Nourian
Sameer Ishtiaq
Muthucumaru Maheswaran
Year: 2009
CASTLE: A social framework for collaborative anti-phishing databases
COLLABORATECOM
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.COLLABORATECOM2009.8310

Arash Nourian¹^,*, Sameer Ishtiaq¹^,*, Muthucumaru Maheswaran¹^,*

1: Advanced Networking Research Lab, School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada

*Contact email: nourian@cs.mcgill.ca, sishti@cs.mcgill.ca, maheswar@cs.mcgill.ca

Abstract

Phishing is a major problem on the Internet. The cornerstone of anti-phishing is detecting whether a given site is good or bad. Most of the approaches for anti-phishing rely on looking up centrally maintained repositories. In this paper, we present a decentralized framework called CASTLE that allows a collaborative approach for anti-phishing services. We implemented a prototype and then tested it on Planet-lab. The experiments indicate the viability of our framework.

Keywords: Collaboration Computer science Databases IP networks Internet Network servers Prototypes Social factors Uniform resource locators Web server

Published: 2009-12-28

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.COLLABORATECOM2009.8310