While PhishTank currently is presented in English, phishing is worldwide. The submissions reflect that global scale, and the stats tell the same global story.

From Germany, Michael Schindler was kind enough to point out his company’s program, Officer Blue. This Windows program, offered in German and English, incorporates PhishTank data (via the XML file) as a key element in its ratings for sites. Michael noted that Officer Blue always makes a point of referencing PhishTank. That’s helped get PhishTank some German press, too. Danke schön!

My understanding of the product is courtesy of the English version of their site, which may be useful for others as well.

Companies and organizations of all sizes find the PhishTank data useful. I love telling you about them all!

St. Bernard is on the larger side, with thousands of customers using their software on millions of computers. I don’t know everything St. Bernard’s software and services do, but phishing prevention is part of their solution.

So I enjoyed receiving the following note from Morgan Christian, the iGuard Development Manager.

As a global provider of comprehensive security and hosted office solutions for small and midsize businesses, St. Bernard uses PhishTank to augment its phishing site listings.

When PhishTank is part of the solution, we’re all doing our part.

The phishtank.com registration expired today. We had set it up to renew last week but we didn’t put enough money in our registrar’s account. The renewal never went through. This morning it expired and we quickly fixed the mistake. We’re a bit embarrassed, and we’ll make sure it doesn’t happen again.

For OpenDNS users, we used http://cache.opendns.com/ (CacheCheck) to push out the changes ASAP.

PhishTank.com is now registered through March 2009.

Chris Gleason of Firetrust shared some good news yesterday. Sitehound, their browser toolbar product for warning you about all kinds of malicious websites (not just phishing) is now utilizing PhishTank data as one of their sources.

Sitehound is now able to provide much more accurate and timely detection and protection from phishing websites. In addition to our own sources and users who report sites to us, SiteHound now plugs into PhishTank’s live XML feed of known phishing websites.

As a reminder, here’s all the info about the XML data file, including its location and format. Kudos to Firetrust for taking another step to protect its customers.

Thanks (again) to the PhishTank community for creating a free, high-quality resource for use all over the world.

Marking our fifth phish-fighting month, February 2007 stats are live. The upgrades made to PhishTank in January are paying off: the community was fast in February.

Now that there are several months of PhishTank stats on record, it’s fun to look back at the early days. In October, there were 2,400 community members. Not bad for our first month, but it pales in comparison to the more than 13,000 strong we have now. October saw just over 7,000 submissions. Again, a very impressive start, but nothing like the 25,000 we had last month.

It’s clear. PhishTank works.