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.
The neat thing is that it feeds directly into the OpenDNS network and therefore is used to help block sites when OpenDNS users request to have phishing protection enabled. There is also a public API and a stats page that indicates how new the project is. While it’s cool that OpenDNS is sponsoring a project like this, I wonder how much it would take to get PhishTank to be the de facto standard like Spamhaus or Spamcop is for email Spam.
Thanks for the writeup. We hope PhishTank makes the Internet a better place for everyone but phishers.
John Roberts
OpenDNS