Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of detecting potential phishing by analyzing universal resource locators
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Application No.: US12479162Application Date: 2009-06-05
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Publication No.: US08438642B2Publication Date: 2013-05-07
- Inventor: Junlan Feng , Valerie Torres , Daniel G. Sheleheda
- Applicant: Junlan Feng , Valerie Torres , Daniel G. Sheleheda
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Agency: Akerman Senterfitt
- Agent Michael K. Dixon; Roy Zachariah
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04L9/32 ; G06F11/00
Abstract:
A method for detecting potential phishing URLs includes extracting a URL from a document, analyzing the URL context, and comparing the URL to stored trusted URLs and stored known phishing URLs. The URL context includes anchor text and surrounding content associated with the URL. The method further includes generating a phishing alert based on the comparing and the analyzing.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100313266A1 Method of Detecting Potential Phishing by Analyzing Universal Resource Locators Public/Granted day:2010-12-09
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