Named Entity Extraction
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.
Named Entity Extraction
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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