Thursday, June 02, 2005

APWG pools data to trap Phishers

The Anti-Phishing Working Group is coordinating efforts tobuild a central repository for phishing data, to betterprotect Internet users and help catch cybercriminals. Thegroup has expanded its simple list of phishing scams into adatabase that can be used for analyses and to shareinformation with members. Additionally, a standard XML formhas been created to facilitate the submission of data onattacks to the organization.

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