A review of Client-Side toolbars as a User-Oriented Anti-Phishing solution

Abstract

Phishing is a cybercrime in which, Internet users are delivered, commonly through emails, to simulated websites where they could be lured to disclose their personal information for attackers’ benefit. Phishing attacks were increased about 60% in the second half of 2013 over what was seen in first half of the same year. Although the number of proposed anti-phishing solutions, phishers still able to bypasses anti-phishing systems, in many cases, through users’ inattention behaviour. Therefore, phishing becomes a layered problem that require addressing issues at both of technical and non-technical (human) layers. Numerous of client-side toolbars were proposed as a technical solution to combat phishing attacks at user’s layer. Anti-phishing toolbars however, still unable to completely protect users from phishing attacks. This paper has reviewed theses toolbars to provide a clear understanding about their performance and limitation points. Such a review is required to draw clear directions of future solutions to alliviate these limitations.