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The Second International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES'07)
Compartmented Security for Browsers - Or How to Thwart a Phisher with Trusted Computing
Vienna, Austria
April 10-April 13
ISBN: 0-7695-2775-2
Sebastian Gajek, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Christian Stuble, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Marcel Winandy, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Identity theft through phishing attacks has become a major concern for Internet users. Typically, phishing attacks aim at luring the user to a faked web site to disclose personal information. Existing solutions proposed against this kind of attack can, however, hardly counter the new generation of sophisticated malware phishing attacks, e.g., pharming Trojans, designed to target certain services. This paper aims at making the first steps towards the design and implementation of a security architecture that prevents both classical and malware phishing attacks. Our approach is based on the ideas of compartmentalization for isolating applications of different trust level, and a trusted wallet for storing credentials and authenticating sensitive services. Once the wallet has been setup in an initial step, our solution requires no special care from users for identifying the right web sites while the disclosure of credentials is strictly controlled. Moreover, a prototype of the basic platform exists and we briefly describe its implementation.
Citation:
Sebastian Gajek, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Christian Stuble, Marcel Winandy, "Compartmented Security for Browsers - Or How to Thwart a Phisher with Trusted Computing," ares, pp.120-127, The Second International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES'07), 2007
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