THE USE OF SECURITY IMAGES IN INTERNET BANKING

Computer Engineering

Internet banking websites often use security images as part of the login process, in that they can help foil phishing attacks. Previous studies, however, have yielded inconsistent results about users ability to notice that a security image is missing. This project describes an online study of users that attempts to clarify the extent to which users notice and react to the absence of security images. Most participants entered their password when the security image and caption were removed. The authors found that changing the appearance and other characteristics of the security image generally had little enact on whether users logged in when the security image was absent. Additionally, they subjected the passwords created by participants to a password-cracking algorithm and found that participants with stronger password were less likely to enter their passwords when the security image was missing. In Mail, messaging, data sharing and computational services are shared under the Internet environment. User access on the services is allowed with reference to the user account information. So,User ID and passwords are applied in the user verification process. In this,Graphical passwords are used to verify the users. Captcha techniques are employed to identify the request is received from the machine or human. Captcha as Graphical Passwords (CaRP) technique integrates the Captcha and Graphical passwords methods. Therefore,pixel location and color based pattern analysis methods are employed to control guessing attacks. Cryptography and data integrity verification methods are used to handle directory attacks and transmission attacks.

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