IJSRP, Volume 10, Issue 2, February 2020 Edition [ISSN 2250-3153]
Adu, Folashade, Ikerionwu Charles, Nnonyelu Henry
Abstract:
Phishing is one of the most popular forms of social engineering attack that involves use of emails or text message from known associate or friend that has links or attachments, which automatically downloads a spyware unnoticed when clicked. This epidemic has been in existence for ages and pose a big threat to IT security, individual and organizations reputation. Thus, this study aims at developing an email application embedded with algorithm to categorize incoming emails into high, medium and low threats.