Comments on: PhishTank data’s so good, it’s the standard http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/11/14/phishtank-datas-so-good-its-the-standard/ A blog about and from PhishTank, a collaborative clearinghouse for data about phishing. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:46:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: OpenDNS Blog » Mozilla chooses PhishTank data http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/11/14/phishtank-datas-so-good-its-the-standard/#comment-15779 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:32:01 +0000 http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/11/14/phishtank-datas-so-good-its-the-standard/#comment-15779 [...] As we mentioned over on the PhishTank blog, Mozilla, maker of Firefox, announced today it selected PhishTank data as the benchmark for comparing phishing protection in Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7.0. This is a big deal, considering the number of phishing-data sources to choose from. [...] […] As we mentioned over on the PhishTank blog, Mozilla, maker of Firefox, announced today it selected PhishTank data as the benchmark for comparing phishing protection in Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7.0. This is a big deal, considering the number of phishing-data sources to choose from. […]

]]> by: micha http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/11/14/phishtank-datas-so-good-its-the-standard/#comment-297 Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:22:56 +0000 http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/11/14/phishtank-datas-so-good-its-the-standard/#comment-297 Thats all very nice and exciting. Hopefully this project will continue for a long time. These days, security solutions are coming and going at a very speedy rate. One point which got my attention is the _very_ low rate of false positives, I see on phishtank. That means not false submissions but rather the "is a phish" rated entries. So far it looks like phishtank is _very_ trustable and thats very amazing for a FREE site. Keep up the good work! Thats all very nice and exciting. Hopefully this project will continue for a long time. These days, security solutions are coming and going at a very speedy rate. One point which got my attention is the _very_ low rate of false positives, I see on phishtank. That means not false submissions but rather the “is a phish” rated entries. So far it looks like phishtank is _very_ trustable and thats very amazing for a FREE site.
Keep up the good work!

]]> by: Ilgaz http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/11/14/phishtank-datas-so-good-its-the-standard/#comment-242 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:17:22 +0000 http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/11/14/phishtank-datas-so-good-its-the-standard/#comment-242 While reporting phishing spam via Spamcop.NET (don't use .com!), I add the phishtank URL of the entry to "Additional notes" of host as "Phishing, see" and I have found they care about it way faster. I also used phishtank URL reporting a phish to Yahoo (their signin) and they cared about it very fast. So, you are quickly becoming "reference" just like Spamcop ;) While reporting phishing spam via Spamcop.NET (don’t use .com!), I add the phishtank URL of the entry to “Additional notes” of host as “Phishing, see” and I have found they care about it way faster.

I also used phishtank URL reporting a phish to Yahoo (their signin) and they cared about it very fast.

So, you are quickly becoming “reference” just like Spamcop ;)

]]> by: John Roberts http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/11/14/phishtank-datas-so-good-its-the-standard/#comment-233 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:48:55 +0000 http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/11/14/phishtank-datas-so-good-its-the-standard/#comment-233 Absolutely, Lloyd, I'd like every browser to catch 100%. We hope that every browser maker uses every tool at their disposal -- including PhishTank, where the data is free -- to catch phishing sites. No one here is complacent, or pretending that PhishTank is capturing and classifying every phish on the Internet (although we can dream!). Just thrilled, overall, that the data is proving useful to many, in different ways. Absolutely, Lloyd, I’d like every browser to catch 100%. We hope that every browser maker uses every tool at their disposal — including PhishTank, where the data is free — to catch phishing sites.

No one here is complacent, or pretending that PhishTank is capturing and classifying every phish on the Internet (although we can dream!). Just thrilled, overall, that the data is proving useful to many, in different ways.

]]> by: Lloyd Budd http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/11/14/phishtank-datas-so-good-its-the-standard/#comment-232 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:20:16 +0000 http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/11/14/phishtank-datas-so-good-its-the-standard/#comment-232 Wouldn't it be a better result if both browsers had caught 100% of the phishing sites in PhishTank's database? Wouldn’t it be a better result if both browsers had caught 100% of the phishing sites in PhishTank’s database?

]]> by: John Roberts http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/11/14/phishtank-datas-so-good-its-the-standard/#comment-231 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:10:28 +0000 http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/11/14/phishtank-datas-so-good-its-the-standard/#comment-231 Lloyd, why is the independence of PhishTank's data "mostly a bad thing"?? Curious, John Lloyd, why is the independence of PhishTank’s data “mostly a bad thing”??

Curious,

John

]]> by: Lloyd Budd http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/11/14/phishtank-datas-so-good-its-the-standard/#comment-230 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:04:26 +0000 http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/11/14/phishtank-datas-so-good-its-the-standard/#comment-230 PhishTank's data was used because it is independent, which is mostly a bad thing. I appreciate the tongue-in-cheek nature of "PhishTank data’s so good, it’s the standard", because if the data is not shared and used then the communities efforts are wasted. PhishTank’s data was used because it is independent, which is mostly a bad thing. I appreciate the tongue-in-cheek nature of “PhishTank data’s so good, it’s the standard”, because if the data is not shared and used then the communities efforts are wasted.

]]> by: PhishTank SiteChecker http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/11/14/phishtank-datas-so-good-its-the-standard/#comment-222 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 05:38:52 +0000 http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/11/14/phishtank-datas-so-good-its-the-standard/#comment-222 <strong>Awesome we got mentioned....</strong> Aww…only one sentence. Oh well. Today The Washington (that’s where I live!) Post wrote an article on Mozilla testing phishing protection in IE7 and Firefox using data from phishtank.com (Rant: if only they tested the browser with this add... Awesome we got mentioned….

Aww…only one sentence. Oh well. Today The Washington (that’s where I live!) Post wrote an article on Mozilla testing phishing protection in IE7 and Firefox using data from phishtank.com (Rant: if only they tested the browser with this add…

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