Carnegie Mellon U. tests phish-blocking with PhishTank data
posted by Allison on November 27th, 2006 in Data, PhishTank, PhishTank in the news, Phishing news
According to an article I just read on HeiseSecurity.co.uk, PhishTank has been used by another group to test phish blocking effectiveness in anti-phishing browser toolbars. This time it was Pittsburg, PA, USA’s Carnegie Mellon University doing the testing. If you’re interested, read the full PDF report here.


Wait. Why are we testing with siteadvisor?
Does no one get that it doesn’t protect against phishing?
Their development blog even says they don’t do phishing.