Phishing Through Time: A Ten Year Story based on Abstracts

Ana Ferreira, Pedro Vieira-Marques

2018

Abstract

For a researcher interested in phishing, it would be useful to access an overview of phishing evolution through time, where a set of methods, tools, solutions, user studies, type of attacks, countermeasures and so on, could be acquired from a single story. This story is essential for the security community to improve on existing research as well as build new effective countermeasures to face phishing attacks. However, no systematic review exists in the literature providing a wide overview of all phishing topics. Available reviews usually focus on one or two at a time. In fact, since there is widely available and varied literature on phishing, making a comprehensive review can take a long time and be cumbersome. This paper describes a method to perform a review on abstracts of 605 scientific papers selected from major online research databases, between 2006 and 2016. The study uses a qualitative categorization software to, for the first time, achieve a story of phishing trends in its existing research strands for that period. According to obtained results, no single solution for the phishing threat could yet be found and most research is turning now into more integrated socio-technical and human related solutions.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ferreira A. and Vieira-Marques P. (2018). Phishing Through Time: A Ten Year Story based on Abstracts.In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP, ISBN 978-989-758-282-0, pages 225-232. DOI: 10.5220/0006552602250232

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icissp18,
author={Ana Ferreira and Pedro Vieira-Marques},
title={Phishing Through Time: A Ten Year Story based on Abstracts},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,},
year={2018},
pages={225-232},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006552602250232},
isbn={978-989-758-282-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,
TI - Phishing Through Time: A Ten Year Story based on Abstracts
SN - 978-989-758-282-0
AU - Ferreira A.
AU - Vieira-Marques P.
PY - 2018
SP - 225
EP - 232
DO - 10.5220/0006552602250232