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End user reporting of suspicious E-mails using X-ARF
Citation Link: https://doi.org/10.15480/882.1396
Publikationstyp
Master Thesis
Publikationsdatum
2017
Sprache
English
Author
Advisor
Referee
Title Granting Institution
Technische Universität Hamburg
Place of Title Granting Institution
Hamburg
Examination Date
2017-06-01
End user e-mail abuse reporting rates are very low, however a survey conducted in this thesis revealed that the desire to report abusive e-mails exists. The reason why the report rates are so low is that the process to report abusive e-mails is very time consuming and complex. Therefore, a new process for e-mail abuse reporting is defined. In this new reporting process, end users are able to report suspicious e-mails instead of spam or phishing e-mails. Furthermore, abuse reports are automatically generated in the X-ARF format. But since automatically generated reports can contain sensitive information, the end user has to have the option of anonymizing reports before sending them. As a proof of concept for the feasibility of this reporting process a Thunderbird plugin was developed.
The X-ARF format of the report enables a very simple implementation of automation for the handling of these reports. Therefore, as another conceptual proof, a report aggregator was developed. Which is able, to perform basic validation functionality.
The X-ARF format of the report enables a very simple implementation of automation for the handling of these reports. Therefore, as another conceptual proof, a report aggregator was developed. Which is able, to perform basic validation functionality.
Schlagworte
phishing
abuse-reporting
X-ARF
e-mail
DDC Class
004: Informatik
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