OpenDNS Announces Community Anti-Phishing Web Site.
2006-10-02, HostMan.biz
OpenDNS, a DNS provider that makes the Internet safer, faster and smarter for you and everyone using your network, today unveiled PhishTank, a free, consumer-friendly community Web site where anyone can submit, verify, track and share phishing data. It's like a neighborhood watch for the Internet.
Phishing is a fraudulent attempt, usually made through e-mail, to steal personally identifiable information. The October launch of PhishTank coincides with National Cyber Security Awareness Month, an annual observance intended to shed light on Internet crime and educate Internet users about cyber safety and crime prevention.
The PhishTank community site employs a sophisticated voting system that requires the community to vote “phish” or “not phish,” reducing the possibility of false positives and improving the overall breadth and coverage of the phishing data. Unlike other anti-phishing groups, PhishTank makes all phishing data it accumulates public and available via programmable APIs, which allow other software developers to incorporate the anti-phishing data into their tools. The open access is intended to encourage the sharing of information and increase the chance of eliminating phishing all together.
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