PhishTank
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| Type | Offshoot of OpenDNS |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| Key people | David Ulevitch (Founder & CEO) |
| Industry | Computer |
| Employees | 10 |
| Parent | OpenDNS |
| Website | www.phishtank.com |
PhishTank is a community based anti-phishing service.
PhishTank was launched in October 2006 by entrepreneur David Ulevitch as an offshoot of OpenDNS. The company offers a community-based phish verification system where users submit suspected phishes and other users "vote" if it is a phish or not.
PhishTank is used by Opera [1], WOT [2], Yahoo Mail [3] and by PhishTank SiteChecker [4]. All PhishTank data is free for download or for access via an API call.
[edit] Effectiveness
As of May, 2008, PhishTank had verified a total of 309,386 (out of 421,290) phishing sites, and a total of 302,726 had been put down[5].
[edit] References
- ^ PhishTank Blog » Blog Archive » Welcome Opera Community!
- ^ PhishTank Blog » Blog Archive » WOT uses PhishTank data
- ^ PhishTank - The fight against phishing « Power of Thought
- ^ PhishTank Blog » Blog Archive » SiteChecker brings PhishTank into Firefox
- ^ PhishTank > Statistics about phishing activity and PhishTank usage
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