{"id":18116,"date":"2020-03-09T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=18116"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:04","slug":"florian-schaub-earns-google-award-to-improve-phishing-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/09\/florian-schaub-earns-google-award-to-improve-phishing-protections\/","title":{"rendered":"Florian Schaub earns Google Award to improve phishing protections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Privacy_Michigan_2019_002-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" class=\"wp-image-12063\"\/><figcaption>Florian Schaub, assistant professor in the U-M School of Information and College of Engineering. (Joel Iverson, ITS Communications) <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.umich.edu\/about-umsi\/news\/florian-schaub-earns-google-award-improve-phishing-protections\">A newly announced Google Faculty Research award will fund a research project on developing better phishing warnings<\/a> co-led by School of Information assistant professor&nbsp;<strong>Florian Schaub<\/strong>. Phishing attacks trick victims into clicking malicious email links to get them to disclose sensitive information such as personal data and passwords, or install malware.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Building on prior work, Schaub says this project will design new phishing warnings that guide users&#8217; attention to a link\u2019s underlying URL and help them evaluate whether the link is safe to click. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo help people avoid falling for phishing attempts, common advice is to \u2018check the URL before you click a link,\u2019 but that\u2019s actually not well supported in today\u2019s email clients,\u201d explains Schaub. \u201cThe onus is on the user to figure out whether or not a link in an email poses a security risk, which can be quite difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly announced Google Faculty Research award will fund a research project on developing better phishing warnings co-led by School of Information assistant professor&nbsp;Florian Schaub. Phishing attacks trick victims into clicking malicious email links to get them to disclose sensitive information such as personal data and passwords, or install malware. Building on prior work, Schaub says this project\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/09\/florian-schaub-earns-google-award-to-improve-phishing-protections\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,27],"tags":[175,290,488,368,260],"class_list":["post-18116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","category-safe-computing","tag-award","tag-coe","tag-cybersecurity","tag-phishing","tag-si"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/flint-phishing-1-e1511369654531.jpg",600,463,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/flint-phishing-1-125x97.jpg",125,97,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/flint-phishing-1-259x200.jpg",259,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/flint-phishing-1-768x593.jpg",665,513,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/flint-phishing-1-700x541.jpg",600,464,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/flint-phishing-1-e1511369654531.jpg",600,463,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/flint-phishing-1-e1511369654531.jpg",600,463,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/flint-phishing-1-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/flint-phishing-1-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/flint-phishing-1-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/flint-phishing-1-665x514.jpg",665,514,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/flint-phishing-1-e1511369654531.jpg",324,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"A newly announced Google Faculty Research award will fund a research project on developing better phishing warnings co-led by School of Information assistant professor&nbsp;Florian Schaub. Phishing attacks trick victims into clicking malicious email links to get them to disclose sensitive information such as personal data and passwords, or install malware. Building on prior work, Schaub&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18116"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18121,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18116\/revisions\/18121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}