Can Phishing Be Foiled?

COMPUTER security research; PHISHING; COMPUTER security software; WEBSITE security; CRANOR, Lorrie Faith; CARNEGIE-Mellon University; UNIVERSITY faculty

The article describes the anti-phishing research led by Lorrie Faith Cranor, associate professor and director of the Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University. The starting point of her research was understanding the critical human factors that phishers exploit for criminal gain. That knowledge is helping researchers in her group develop better ways of educating Internet users and design software that is more effective in detecting phishing attempts.