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Peer Reviewer:

1. Describe the problem in your own words.
2. What is the scope? What is the severity? Is the problem statement objective? Explain why or why not.
3. Describe the problem statement quality and provide one suggestion for improvement.
4. How was the problem measured?
5. Explain the derivation of the metric and the baseline and the unit of the metric.
6. Make a comment on the quality of the metric used, providing one alternative or additional metric for the problem.
7. List the factors in the problem and comment on their relevance/valid.
8. Provide one alternative or additional factor.
9. Provide five statements/determinations/insights that the analysis offered.
10. Provide a statement about the quality, readability, and usability of the document.
11. What are the solution options?
12. What is the solution you would pick?
13. Have APA guidelines been followed?

Provide any additional comments you may have about the paper. This can include suggesting new topics that will enhance the content of the paper.

   I need help to peer reviewing the paper below:

Due to studies from several articles and a lot of complain from tremendous number of people about personal information leakage, phishing is considered as the most serious threat today. Therefore, phishing is used to steal personal information, online credentials and credit card details. As an evidence, number of victims of password and credentials in web are increasing every day. Also, the study from the article found out that all this personal information leakage attack is caused with both phishing by using the social engineering attack and malware-based attacks. And according to the Threats Report of the security company, MacAfee in the third quarter of 2012, the total number of the menacing URL in the world which divides the malicious code to the phishing sites was counted with 43,400,000 cases in the third quarter of 2012. Which means 20% increased preparation in the second quarter of 2012, and the domain name of the URL showed 23,700,000 cases, and it increased maximum 50% compared to the existing preparation. In addition, the article shows that the average number of monthly and newly discovered menancing URL was 2,700,000 cases. Also, according to security company, Kaspersky, Lab, the forged search and e-mail service, social network, financial institutions and online store were used for the Phishing often. And the number of the internet users who experienced the phishing attack increased by 87% from 1990,000 to 37,300,000 people in recently years. The Phishing attack through the spam e-mail as the existing phishing attack increase from 10.23 to 12.09 % in 2012, and the methods and range increased through the communication between computers such as Website or messaging system. Truly, many people think wrong that hackers only attack companies not individual. It is our responsibilities both general users and public institutions to become aware and getting ready for Phishing in daily lives. In order to against Phishing tricks, I agreed that individual users must be prepare for tricks which there should be public education about Phishing. Also, both academic and government organizations have a significant effort to deliver end user education to enable public understanding of the importance of cyber security. For instance, computer users with limited computer literacy or mediocre computer skills must be offered free lesson and advices about common cyber security breaches. Obviously, due to the researches, only little efforts are being made in order to prevent phishing to spread among many users. Consequently, with time phishing threat is increasing and become a common fraud to commit crime. In the final analysis, IT professional need to aim further research over anti-phishing education in order to save users from phishing attacks.

                                               

Answer 1

Scope

As we know that most of our life depends on internet and almost all using internet as a communication agent in present days. So there is threat to our confidential data because we are storing our data on internet. So most of hackers try to misuse our credentials for wrong purpose. So students must know about these attacks and cyber security must be a academic subject.

Severity

For example in case of online banking transactions , through phshing attack user accounts.no and password is known by attacker then attacker may withdraw all your money.This makes a severe problem.

One of the suggestion from my side is to conduct awareness among people and also try to avoid spam mails (block them)

Don't click on malicious links.