TELKOMNIKA (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control)
Vol 19, No 5: October 2021

A maximum entropy classification scheme for phishing detection using parsimonious features

Emmanuel O. Asani (Landmark University)
Adebayo Omotosho (Hasso Plattner Institute)
Paul A. Danquah (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Institute for Scientific and Technological Information (CSIR-INSTI))
Joyce A. Ayoola (Landmark University)
Peace O. Ayegba (Landmark University)
Olumide B. Longe (Academic City University College)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Oct 2021

Abstract

Over the years, electronic mail (e-mail) has been the target of several malicious attacks. Phishing is one of the most recognizable forms of manipulation aimed at e-mail users and usually, employs social engineering to trick innocent users into supplying sensitive information into an imposter website. Attacks from phishing emails can result in the exposure of confidential information, financial loss, data misuse, and others. This paper presents the implementation of a maximum entropy (ME) classification method for an efficient approach to the identification of phishing emails. Our result showed that maximum entropy with parsimonious feature space gives a better classification precision than both the Naïve Bayes and support vector machine (SVM).

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Journal Info

Abbrev

TELKOMNIKA

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT

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