A Buhooth funded Research Assistant I, currently doing his MSc by Research studies in mitigation of phishing attacks, with the supervision of Dr. Andrew Jones and Dr. Youssef Iraqi. He can be contacted via email: mkhonji [at] Khalifa University’s domain name, PGP key: 0x92584ECA.

Working groups:

• Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG).

Research interest:

• Security usability.
• Phishing and Spam filtering.
• Authorship detection.
• Machine Learning.
• Computer networking.

Industrial Certificates:

• CCIE RS Written (the lab test is in progress).
• CCNP.
• CCNA.

Academic Degrees:

• BASc in Computer Networking with Highest distinction with Honour (GPA 4/4) – DMC, HCT.

Publications:

• Mahmoud Khonji, Youssef Iraqi, Andrew Jones, Lexical URL Analysis for Discriminating Phishing and Legitimate E-Mail Messages. In ICITST 2011 – The 6th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, December 11-14, 2011, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
• Mahmoud Khonji, Youssef Iraqi, Andrew Jones, Mitigation of Spear Phishing Attacks: A Content-Based Authorship Identification Framework. In ICITST 2011 – The 6th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, December 11-14, 2011, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
• Mahmoud Khonji, Andrew Jones and Youssef Iraqi. A Study of Feature Subset Evaluators and Feature Subset Searching Methods  for Phishing Classification. In CEAS 2011 – Eighth annual Collaboration, Electronic messaging, Anti-Abuse and Spam Conference September 1-2, 2011, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
• Mahmoud Khonji, Youssef Iraqi and Andrew Jones. Lexical URL Analysis for Discriminating Phishing and Legitimate Websites. In CEAS 2011 – Eighth annual Collaboration, Electronic messaging, Anti-Abuse and Spam Conference September 1-2, 2011, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
• Khonji, M.; Jones, A.; Iraqi, Y.; , “A novel Phishing classification based on URL features,” GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCC), 2011 IEEE , vol., no., pp.221-224, 19-22 Feb. 2011.