PhishTank

PhishTank

Infobox_Company
company_name = PhishTank
company_
company_type = Offshoot of OpenDNS
foundation = 2006
location = San Francisco, California
key_people = David Ulevitch (Founder & CEO)
industry = Computer
products =
revenue =
operating_income =
net_income =
num_employees = 10
parent = OpenDNS
subsid =
homepage = [http://www.phishtank.com/ 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 [ [http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/12/18/welcome-opera-community/ PhishTank Blog » Blog Archive » Welcome Opera Community! ] ] , WOT [ [http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/11/11/wot-uses-phishtank-data/ PhishTank Blog » Blog Archive » WOT uses PhishTank data ] ] , Yahoo Mail [ [http://powerofthought.wordpress.com/2007/05/23/phishtank-the-fight-against-phishing/ PhishTank - The fight against phishing « Power of Thought ] ] and by PhishTank SiteChecker [ [http://www.phishtank.com/blog/2006/11/03/sitechecker-brings-phishtank-into-firefox/ PhishTank Blog » Blog Archive » SiteChecker brings PhishTank into Firefox ] ] . The MacOS X password management utility [http://agilewebsolutions.com/products/1Password 1Password] can enable PhishTank in any Mac browser supported by 1Password (currently Safari, Camino, Firefox, OmniWeb, DEVONagent, NetNewsWire, WebKit and Fluid). All PhishTank data is free for download or for access via an API call. There is an extension for Firefox that enabled this functionality [ [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3840 > FireFox extension] ] .

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 [ [http://www.phishtank.com/stats.php PhishTank > Statistics about phishing activity and PhishTank usage ] ] .

References

External links

* [http://www.phishtank.com/api_documentation.php PhishTank API Documentation]


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