Browser side protection of E-government website against phishing

The ability of E-Government to make public services easily available online to the citizen is an attractive prospect. But to create a trust context among the citizens to enable them to use the web for sensitive transactions is very important. As Phishing attacks are not limited only to the e-commerce and banking world, it is also affecting the e-Government world as most of the funds of various schemes or yojanas are directly transferred online to the beneficiaries ’account. So in today online environment we need to protect the data from phishing and safeguard our information. In this paper we present a browser side protection mechanism which uses two approaches to prevent the users from entering into a phishing site. The first approach is a white-list which stores the legitimate e-government website and portals and just checks a legitimate site. If a user enters a phishing site or visits a domain name similar to a e-government site then it will use the next approach to identify the page. The second approach does a web page content analysis and computes a risk rating percentage and gives a alert message if the risk rating is greater than a threshold value.