Optimizing Anti-Phishing Solutions Based on User Awareness, Education and the Use of the Latest Web Security Solutions

Phishing has grown significantly in volume over the time, becoming the most usual web threattoday. The present economic crisis is an added argument for the great increase in number ofattempts to cheat internet users, both businesses and private ones. The present research isaimed at helping the IT environment get a more precise view over the phishing attacks inRomania; in order to achieve this goal we have designed an application able to retrieve andinterpret phishing related data from five other trusted web sources and compile them into meaningful and more targeted report. As a conclusion, besides making available regularreports, we underline the need for a higher degree of awareness related to this issue