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Named Entity Extraction. Richard North, III REU-CS University of Houston. Named Entity Recognition (NER). The process of finding mentions of specified things in running text Breaking the mentions into predefined categories such name, location, organization, time, etc.
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Named Entity Extraction Richard North, III REU-CS University of Houston
Named Entity Recognition (NER) • The process of finding mentions of specified things in running text • Breaking the mentions into predefined categories such name, location, organization, time, etc. • Using NER to detect fraudulent actions
URL Phishing • Only Looking at the URL • How Spammers Fool Users • Comparing Legitimate URLs w/ Phishing URLs • I’m a Victim! • Fun Facts • In 2007, 3.6M adults lost a total of $3.2B • 50-75% of phishing URLs contain the name of the brand they are targeting
Comparing Legitimate URLs w/ Phishing URLs • Legitimate • https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-submit • Phishing • http://www.paypal.com-webapps.limtedsesion.com/325f1428a730b5c43a868f2a1b9...
I’m a Victim! • PROOF!
References • https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/leet08/tech/full_papers/mcgrath/mcgrath_html/ • http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~savage/papers/TIST11.pdf • https://www.phishtank.com