Preventing Phishing Attacks Using Trusted Computing Technology

Phishing attacks,which have became one of the most severe threats on the Internet,have caused heavy losses for financial institutions and common customers.Phishing has blocked the develop of online banking and electronic commerce.We analyze the vulnerabilities of current web browsers,discuss online user authentication,and a method for online user authentication using trusted computing platforms is proposed.The proposed approach makes a class of phishing attacks ineffective;moreover,the proposed method can also be used to protect against other online attacks.