PhishTank is alive, and filling up.
PhishTank is a community anti-phishing Web site where anyone can go to submit suspected phishes, track the status of their submissions and help verify others’ submissions. Unlike other anti-phishing efforts that may come to mind, PhishTank is totally free to use and open to access.
After a qualified number of users collectively agree that a suspected phish is, in fact, a real phish, the phish becomes verified. (Amit drew the Digg parallel.)
But we didn’t stop there. Because we genuinely want to stop phishing and believe firmly that phishing data should not cost money, PhishTank has a free and open API. Our hope is that developers will use PhishTank data to build anti-phishing elements into their tools.
And you’ve probably guessed by now how OpenDNS uses PhishTank data. Once the PhishTank community collectively verifies a phish, we conduct an additional layer of checks and balances and ultimately block the phish for OpenDNS users (if the users have phishing protection enabled, of course). We still get phishing data from other sources, too, but we think you’re going to help make PhishTank our best source.
We want OpenDNS to be the best it can possibly be, and in order for that to happen we need the best phishing data available. But we’re not selfish — the data belongs to all of us.
Read more about PhishTank here and let us know what you think!
Jason Pearce | relatively irrelevant » Blog Archive » PhishTank Launches, OpenDNS Tanks
[…] On the same day OpenDNS launched PhishTank, an OpenDNS server located in Washington, DC, stoped answering DNS for 45 minutes. […]
posted on October 2nd, 2006 at 9:03 pm
Laughing Squid » PhishTank
[…] OpenDNS (which I blogged about in July) has just launched their latest service PhishTank, “a free community site where anyone can submit, verify, track and share phishing data”. OpenDNS will use the data gathered from PhishTank to improve their phishing protection services. PhishTank is a community anti-phishing Web site where anyone can go to submit suspected phishes, track the status of their submissions and help verify others’ submissions. Unlike other anti-phishing efforts that may come to mind, PhishTank is totally free to use and open to access. […]
posted on October 2nd, 2006 at 10:31 pm
yonkeltron » Blog Archive » PhishTank Looks Neat
[…] I caught wind of this neat little project called PhishTank from a blog post by the OpenDNS guys. It’s a site based around the concept of using a community of users to create a database of phishing sites as they are encountered. Think of it like a Digg for interent fraud. […]
posted on October 3rd, 2006 at 1:14 am
Filling up PhishTank with Phishers | SYP
[…] Filling up PhishTank with Phishers Via OpenDNS Blog, PhishTank is a website that collects URLs of phishing websites that conduct fraudulent activity by tricking people believing they are on a legitimate website. I’m getting phishing emails almost everyday telling me either my PayPal is not working, asking me to confirm an eBay purchase, or my bank needs my password. Great that PhishTank and OpenDNS are fighting against the phishers, so sign up, report all the phishers, and help these guys to help Internet be a safer place. Tagged in Quickies, Security | Tue, 3 October 2006 10:37 am […]
posted on October 4th, 2006 at 10:00 pm
Learningpc4beginners
This sounds real good. But I teach the computer users to use siteadvisor if it has a red flag, they don’t visit the site, and yellow flag I ask them to read why site advisor flagged it as yellow. I am just curious though. Wouldn’t it be far better for you to combine your efforts with something like siteadvisor? Would it be possible for you to do this? Today’s computer users need as many things in one basket as possible. I just think security wise their security software is starting to spread out too thin. How will the layman user just going online, or just online a few months find you? I am not trying to shove siteadvisor down anyone’s throat here, I am just trying to show you from experience of teaching new computer users my observations of seven years experience.
posted on October 9th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
John Roberts
SiteAdvisor is welcome to use PhishTank data if they choose.
Security is always going to be many layers, not one perfect solution.
posted on October 9th, 2006 at 2:28 pm
Put Phishers In The Tank « The Internet Danger Report
[…] Quoting from a post on the OpenDNS blog, “PhishTank is a community anti-phishing Web site where anyone can go to submit suspected phishes, track the status of their submissions and help verify others’ submissions. Unlike other anti-phishing efforts that may come to mind, PhishTank is totally free to use and open to access.” […]
posted on October 12th, 2006 at 11:06 am
JP
I realize that any DNS-based protection method won’t protect against phishing sites accessed by IP - but how important is the ability to surf by IP nowadays? Shouldn’t every Internet website, or intranet site for that matter be able to provide a domain-name or run DNS to access it?
How about starting a petition that browser software developers should incorporate two security options, which should be checked by default…
[ ] Disallow sites by IP address
[ ] Allow local LAN IPs (192.168.x, etc. for allowing your home router/access-point configuration or some corporate intranets)
By using these security options, you will quickly kill off all the “lasy phishers” who don’t take the time, don’t have the technical knowhow, or don’t have the $$ to setup or register a domain-name for thier false site.
posted on October 12th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
Vinny Carpenter’s blog · OpenDNS Rocks
[…] The safer surfing part comes into play with the phishing filter built into OpenDNS. OpenDNS intercepts connections against known phishing sites, based on network analysis and feeds from other network operators including their new venture PhishTank. PhishTank is a community anti-phishing Web site where anyone can go to submit suspected phishes, track the status of their submissions and help verify others submissions. […]
posted on October 18th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
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Thanks for the post.
Great info.
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