Yahoo! Mail adds PhishTank data to help protect customers
posted by John Roberts on April 19th, 2007 in PhishTank, Customers, Yahoo
Fantastic news: Yahoo! Mail, the world’s largest Web mail service, uses PhishTank data to help protect its 250 million users.
Here is the press release on the OpenDNS site, or read the official release on PRWeb. One quote:
“By combining the data received from PhishTank.com with other anti-phishing resources, we are currently protecting Yahoo! Mail users from nearly 14 million phishing email messages per day. Listening to the community, developing enhanced technologies and collaborating with security leaders continue to be priorities as we work to protect email users from the industry-wide problem of phishing,” said Miles Libbey, Yahoo! anti-spam product manager.
Our thanks to Miles, Carlo Catajan, and others on the Yahoo! Mail team for taking this step and doing even more to protect their customers. I’ll share one more quote, which sums up our feelings here at OpenDNS:
“OpenDNS is thrilled Yahoo! Mail has chosen phishing protection powered by PhishTank,” said David Ulevitch, CEO of OpenDNS. “PhishTank is firmly rooted in the belief that the fight against phishing is a collaborative effort and we encourage other organizations to follow Yahoo! Mail’s lead.”
To the entire community: Thank you!
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Ilgaz
I am very glad since it also means the shift of policy at Yahoo, as a registered user since ‘98 I really like the recent policy changes there, especially last 6 months.
— posted by Ilgaz on April 20th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Daniel Aleksandersen
I assume Yahoo! will give OpenDNS some kind of compensation for the huge network load? Servers, bandwidth, or something? It would be great if this could be disclosed as well as the “happy news”.
— posted by Daniel Aleksandersen on April 21st, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Karl Viklund
Very very good to see.
I have been a user of Yahoo Mail since 1998-1999 and I’m really happy, it’s the best service out there.
I submit Phish Emails to PhishTank that I receive via Yahoo Mail. But it seems like PhishTank is getting flooded with submissions right now so it takes too long for submissions to get status as actually being a Phishing site.
— posted by Karl Viklund on April 21st, 2007 at 10:17 pm