Comments on: Phishing data should be shared http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2007/05/21/phishing-data-should-be-shared/ A blog about and from PhishTank, a collaborative clearinghouse for data about phishing. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:41:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: M M http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2007/05/21/phishing-data-should-be-shared/#comment-23879 Tue, 29 May 2007 03:50:50 +0000 http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2007/05/21/phishing-data-should-be-shared/#comment-23879 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 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

]]> by: Char http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2007/05/21/phishing-data-should-be-shared/#comment-23039 Tue, 22 May 2007 15:22:39 +0000 http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2007/05/21/phishing-data-should-be-shared/#comment-23039 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 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

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