Phishing data should be shared
posted by Allison on May 21st, 2007 in PhishTank, Community
And starting today, it is, between Anti-Phishing Working Group and OpenDNS.
This is a big day for us, folks, and for all of you who have worked to make PhishTank the most authoritative source of phishing data on the Web.
Anti-Phishing Working Group is big, and has a member list boasting companies like eBay, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Verisign and Cisco. They’ve been at phish-fighting since 2003 and have made great progress in raising awareness about the seriousness of Internet crime.
We’re young, but growing at lightning speed. The human approach OpenDNS and PhishTank bring to the table is an incredibly important element to combatting the problem.
Anti-Phishing Working Group and OpenDNS make a great team and we’re excited about what we can accomplish together.
[Cross-posted to PhishTank and OpenDNS blogs.]
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Char
This is really great! I think it’s very important that we are working together with them as a large unified team. Hopefully, this will help make it too difficult for the phishers to continue!
Char
— posted by Char on May 22nd, 2007 at 3:22 pm
M M
This is way cool! For over a year before PhishTank existed, the Society submitted
received phishes to antiphishing.org and never received acknowledgements. To see this
intercooperation and coordination of entities at this level is a beautiful thing, both
for the London Antiphishing Society (near Arkansas Nuclear One) and all who fight phishing.
This doesn’t mean it will disappear as there is much education to be done, including
the education of all newbies to the Net so they won’t get “hooked” on a phisher’s trot-line
as well as their diligence in treating certain websites and attachments with cynicism.
This will make a phisher’s role much more difficult, so expect the bad guys to develop
more sinister means for phishing to survive. The Society expects it will require a
multinational cooperation of reporting, monitoring of suspicious sites or traffic, honeypot
and scumtrap reporting to such entities in real time, prompt response, CONSISTENT
enforcement, yet being mindful of weak security with some systems having been hacked that
caused them to become an unknowing relay. This will take more time and effort to fine-tune
but the light is shining brightly at the end of the tunnel, and that puts real fear in
phishers
— posted by M M on May 29th, 2007 at 3:50 am