Analysis of phishing emails

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60162694%3AG43__%2F21%3A00556805" target="_blank" >RIV/60162694:G43__/21:00556805 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.aimspress.com/article/doi/10.3934/electreng.2021006" target="_blank" >https://www.aimspress.com/article/doi/10.3934/electreng.2021006</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/electreng.2021006" target="_blank" >10.3934/electreng.2021006</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Analysis of phishing emails

Original language description

This research aims to describe and analyze phishing emails. The problem of phishing, types of message content of phishing emails, and the basic techniques of phishing email attacks are explained by way of introduction. The study also includes a review of the relevant literature on Web of Science and analyzes articles that deal with the threat of phishing attacks and defense against them. Data collected within a time interval of two months from two email accounts of one of the authors of the study was used for the analysis of 200 email messages. Data has been resented in tabular form, to allow further statistical processing using functions such as sum, average and frequency analysis. The core part of the study involved the classification and segmentation of emails according to the main goals of the sent message. The text analytical software Tovek, was used for the analysis, Contribution of the manuscript is in the understanding of phishing emails and extending the knowledge base in education and training in phishing email defense. The discussion compares the results of this research with those of the studies mentioned in the "Introduction" and "Literature review" sections. Furthermore, the emerging problems and limitations of the use of text analytical software are described, and finally the issue is devoted to problems with obtaining personal data from recipients' emails. The "Conclusion" section summarizes the contributions of this research.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10200 - Computer and information sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

AIMS Electronics and Electrical Engineering

ISSN

2578-1588

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

5

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

93-116

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85103762338