Keypoint Matching Technique and Its Applications

Severity of the “Phishing”
Problem
• Phishing = Phone + Fishing
• more than 66,000 phishing cases reported to or
detected by Anti-Phishing Working Group
(APWG) in September, 2007
• in 2007 (a survey by Gartner, Inc.)
– more than $3.2 billion was lost to phishing attacks in
the US
– 3.6 million adults lost money in phishing attacks
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