DETECTING PHISHING WEBSITES USING SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE ALGORITHM

Abstract

Cybersecurity is one of the most important areas which aims to protect computers or computer systems, networks, programs and data from an attack such as; financial systems, biometric security systems, military systems, personal information security etc. Nowadays, there are a lot of rule-based phishing detection systems which are created to help people who can't understand which URL is real and which one is fake URL address. This paper proposes a method with supervised machine learning that classifies the URLs to legitimate and phishing. By using support vector machine (SVM) classification, a machine-learning algorithm, with an MATLAB-based computer program to give a warning message to the users about the reliability of the web page. In this paper, phishing detection system is implemented with SVM to avoid the internet users from becoming a victim of phishers to do not lose financial and personal information. 

Keywords

• Cyber security,phishing,machine learning,support vector machine,matlab

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