PhishTank in the News: October 10, 2006
posted by Allison on October 10th, 2006 in Members, PhishTank, PhishTank in the news
Yesterday eWEEK published a great column from seasoned security expert Larry Seltzer about PhishTank. I encourage everyone to read it as it addresses some important issues and concerns. Larry acknowledges that “The [PhishTank] voting system is good because it’s fair and effective, but it also makes it imperative that a large community be constantly examining the submissions and voting.” And Larry’s eWEEK colleague Ryan Naraine also wrote a well-informed news article about the site.
Thanks go to Eric Suesz at Macworld, for writing an article comparing PhishTank and OpenDNS to Symantec’s Norton Confidential for Mac. Eric raises some good points about phishing, including one in particular I agree with: “Maybe the solution to phishing is all about community.” Like the way you’re thinkin’ Eric.
Mark Joseph Edwards at Windows IT Pro, too, gets our thanks for his PhishTank article published yesterday. His headline, “PhishTank Aims to Blow Scammers Out of the Water,” is great and a play on the name of the site that I hadn’t yet heard. (And believe me, I thought I’d heard them all. 
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CNET’s security guru Joris Evers takes a look at PhishTank one week into its life and reports that, at presstime, PhishTank had about 2,300 (!!) submissions. Joris mentions CastleCops, an organization we’re big fans of.
Last but certainly not least, UK tech writer Matthew Broersma wrote an article about PhishTank yesterday for Techworld.com that was picked up state-side by CIO Magazine. Glad to see he aknowledged Spamfighter, our No. 1 submitter with a total of 454 phishes – and climbing.
