Types of anti-phishing solutions for phishing attack (original) (raw)

Nowadays, many people use Internet to do online activity. This scenario exposed them to danger in Internet which is phishing attack. In order to solve phishing attack, the anti-phishing solutions are needed. Based on our review, there are still lacks of articles that review on the types of anti-phishing solutions in detail. In this paper, a general idea of phishing attack and anti-phishing solutions is presented. The phishing attack can be classified into two categories which are social engineering and malware-based phishing attack. The anti-phishing solutions can be differentiating into two types which are phishing prevention and phishing detection. Compared to phishing prevention, the phishing detection is more important to solve the phishing attack. In phishing detection, there are two categories which are user awareness and software detection. The software detection has two methods which are traditional and automatic. There are two types for automatic method of software detectio...