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Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Cookbook
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Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Cookbook

by Emmanuel Tsukerman
November 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
346 pages
9h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Cookbook

Phishing URL detection

A phishing website is a website that tries to obtain your account password or other personal information by making you think that you are on a legitimate website. Some phishing URLs differ from the intended URL in a single character specially chosen to increase the odds of a typo, while others utilize other channels to generate traffic.

Here is an example of a phishing website attempting to obtain a user's email address by pressuring a user into believing that their email will be shut down:

Since phishing is one of the most successful modes of attack, it is crucial to be able to identify when a URL is not legitimate. ...

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