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Exploring the Factors That Influence an Internet User’s Ability
to Correctly Identify Phishing Websites
-- Swapan Purkait
The Internet has become a very important medium of communication. Internet access is no longer limited to technical people only. All ages are now connected online, and they use Internet for conducting a wide range of business. Because of the growth of the Internet and so many users connected, collecting personal information through a phishing website is also easy for a fraudster. They use websites that look similar to those of legitimate organizations and exploit the end-user’s lack of knowledge of web browser clues and security indicators. This research study was conducted to empirically investigate the factors that influence Internet user’s ability to correctly identify phishing websites. Quantitative data was collected by simulating a phishing attack where participants were required to complete a task by signing into one of their e-mail accounts online. The impact of age, gender, education, awareness of phishing and previous encounter with phishing had on their ability to correctly identify the phishing website was measured. We found that many Internet users do not understand phishing attacks or realize how sophisticated such attacks can be. However, we found users who were victims of phishing in past did well to identify the phishing website. © 2012 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
Role of Website Quality in e-Governance Web Portals in India
--Jaya Iyer and R K Srivastava
Website is the most powerful media for delivering e-Government services. Citizens can easily access government information and gain greater opportunities to utilize and participate in government processes (Fang, 2002). Since Information Technology (IT) is changing rapidly, contributing to the growth of a large amount of the Internet and technological data, many governments around the world feel the necessity to change their services to the citizens effectively through the electronic standard. This has compelled the governments to restructure their working pattern from the manual system to fully automated. Online services are faster and accurate than the traditional ones. It reduces the time for traveling and waiting in the queue, and a significant cost reduction is seen when using online e-Government services. The mighty Internet plays an important role in providing the online e-Government services. Various studies have been done to determine the quality of the e-Government websites in different countries. This study aims to provide an instrument for measuring the quality dimensions of e-Government web services in the Indian scenario. In order to measure the website quality, this paper proposes nine dimensions which are identified based on a review of the literature and on the analysis of data of a pilot survey. © 2012 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
Application of Radial Basis Function Neural Networks
on Web Logs
--Ch Sanjeev Kumar Dash, Manoj Kumar Pandia
and Satchidananda Dehuri
With the rapid growth of World Wide Web (WWW), it is very difficult for website owners to track and understand the need of the users. Hence, a semiautomatic intelligent analyzer can be used to find out the browsing patterns of a user. Moreover, the pattern which is revealed from this deluge of web access logs must be interesting, useful and understandable. With these three objectives, this paper uses a radial basis function neural network to classify the webpages based on the time of access and region of access. The experimental results obtained from this study are encouraging for further intensive research. © 2012 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
Web Content Mining: Issues and Challenges
-- Sankaranarayanan Deepa and Shanmugasundaram Hariharan
Mining the World Wide Web (WWW) is deemed to be a challenging and laborious task for the simple reason that the commercial search engines retrieve irrelevant information for user queries. The documents retrieved by the existing commercial search engines are enormous in nature and the document repository is populated on a day-to-day basis. As a result, it becomes a tricky and unaffordable scenario for a web surfer. The content obtained also seems to be repetitive, unrelated, or sometimes useless. Though many commercial search engines exist today, each has its own pros and cons. Each system has its own search procedure which is being analyzed by several researchers. This paper details the hierarchy of web mining and thereby provides a complete analysis of the challenges and future directions for efficient web search process. © 2012 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
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