NetCraft Launching Anti-Phishing Service
from the sounds-good dept
"Phishing" scams, where a scammer sends a fake email pretending to be from a legitimate site and tries to get people go to a real-looking site and give away all their personal details and/or passwords, are becoming increasingly popular. However, as scams grow, so do the scam fighters. NetCraft, known for monitoring what systems are used to host websites, is going to launch a phishing detection service. Since they already keep track of registered domain names, and crawls sites, recording their home page. The service will specifically look for domain names that are similar to the names of companies that sign up for the service - while also comparing actual websites to try to catch phishing sites before they have a chance to scam people. Sounds like a useful service.
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Phishing Alert Services...
I would love to see the service work more like Spamhaus or SPEAS, where domain registries are alerted to scams and given the opportunity to kill off the domain or face coercive action (I am still waiting for Yahoo! to drop securedaol.com, won't likely happen soon though the host of the site has already killed the server.)
Having something like this will go along way to cutting these idiots out of the internet. Still, it would be nice to have a website like the one I am debating without worry of the cops shutting it down.
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