SpoofGuard

Researchers at Stanford University have developed SpoofGuard, a browser-based toolbar to prevent successful phishing attacks.

SpoofGuard is a browser plug in that is compatible with Microsoft Internet Explore. SpoofGuard places a traffic light in your browser toolbar that turns from green to yellow to red as you navigate to a spoof site. If you try to enter sensitive information into a form from a spoof site, SpoofGuard will save your data and warn you. SpoofGuard warnings occur when alarm indicators reach a level that depends on parameters that are set by the user.

A white paper describing SpoofGuard is available for download.

Another Stanford effort is targeted at user tendencies to use a common password across multiple sites. Web Password Hashing provides a client side solution to hashing the user's password with the domain name of the web site to create a unique password specific to that site. A PowerPoint presentation on this technique is available for download.