SBIR Phase I: Stopping URL-Fraud One Website at a Time

SBIR 第一阶段：一次阻止一个网站的 URL 欺诈

• 批准号: 0839491
• 负责人: Anirban Banerjee
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: JAAL LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-01-01 至 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0839491&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Stopping; URL; Fraud

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop a novel approach to protect people and businesses from damage inflicted by phony and malicious web-sites, which engage in URL-fraud. These web-sites exploit the carelessness and inexperience of users, who often mistype the name of a site or follow hyperlinks from email spam, which appears to be from a legitimate organization, such as their bank. The proposed core technology consists of a method to automatically detect whether a website is legitimate or not. The novelty of the work lies in the development of profiles, which capture multiple facets of the properties and the behavior of a website. The project requires a synergy between networking, datamining, graph-mining and machine learning in order to identify the right features in each profile and combine them intelligently for a final decision.The proposed work has high commercial potential and direct impact on regular Internet users. Web-fraud is an immediate and expensive problem that affects people and business through identity theft, email spam, and the spread of viruses, all of which are interconnected manifestations of Internet threats. Through the development of web-browser plug-ins and monitoring tools, the proposed technology will make web-surfing and email safer for the less tech-savvy people, such as elders and children, which are particularly vulnerable.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目将开发一种新的方法，以保护人们和企业免受虚假和恶意网站造成的损害，这些网站从事URL欺诈。这些网站利用了用户的粗心和缺乏经验，他们经常打错网站的名称，或者从垃圾邮件中找到超链接，而垃圾邮件似乎来自合法组织，比如他们的银行。所提出的核心技术包括一种自动检测网站是否合法的方法。 这项工作的新奇在于开发配置文件，它捕获了网站属性和行为的多个方面。 该项目需要网络、数据挖掘、图形挖掘和机器学习之间的协同作用，以识别每个配置文件中的正确特征，并将其智能地结合起来，以做出最终决定。拟议的工作具有很高的商业潜力，并对普通互联网用户产生直接影响。网络欺诈是一个直接而昂贵的问题，它通过身份盗窃、垃圾邮件和病毒传播影响个人和企业，所有这些都是互联网威胁的相互关联的表现形式。 通过开发网络浏览器插件和监控工具，拟议的技术将使网络冲浪和电子邮件对于技术不太精通的人（例如老年人和儿童）来说更安全，因为他们特别容易受到攻击。