Interesting Anti-Phishing Projects

Seven anti-phishing projects, I especially find the browser recon and countermeasures one as a trendy concept, as phishers are already taking advantage of vulnerabilities allowing them to figure out a browser's history, thus establish a more reputable communication with the victim -- adaptive phishing.

01. Social Phishing
The fundamental purpose of this study was to study the effects of more advanced techniques in phishing using context. Receiving a message from a friend (or corroborated by friends), we hypothesized the credibility of the phishing attempt would be greater

02. Browser Recon and Countermeasures
One can use a simple technique used to examine the web browser history of an unsuspecting web site visitor using Cascading Style Sheets. Phishers typically send massive amounts of bulk email hoping their lure will be successful. Given greater context, such lures can be more effectively tailored---perhaps even in a context aware phishing attack

03. Socially Transmitted Malware
People are drawn in by websites containing fun content or something humorous, and they generally want to share it with their friends. This is considered social transmission: referral to a location based on reccommendation of peers. We measured possible malware spread using social transmission

04. Phishing with Consumer Electronics: Malicious Home Routers
It is easy to "doctor" a wireless router like the ones found at home or at a local WiFi hotspot to misdirect legitimate browser links to phoney and often harmful website.

05. Net Trust
Individuals are socialized to trust, and trust is a necessary enabler of e-commerce. The human element is the core of confidence scams, so any solution must have this element at its core. Scammers, such as phishers and purveyors of 419 fraud, are abusing trust on the Internet. All solutions to date, such as centralized trust authorities, have failed. Net Trust is the solution -- trust technologies grounded in human behavior

06. A Riddle
Could your browser release your personal information without your knowledge?

07. Phroogle
Exploiting comparison shopping engines to bait victims

You might also be interested in Google's Anti-Phishing Black and White Lists.