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Netcraft Releases Anti-Phishing Toolbar
AgainstHate writes "Netcraft has released an Anti-Phishing Toolbar that provides detailed information about the website you are visiting (sites' hosting location, country, longevity and popularity) at all times to help users to validate fraudulent URLs. It also natively traps cross site scripting and other suspicious URLs. The toolbar also enables users to report phishing attacks to Netcraft, thus blocking any other unsuspecting users from being harmed (Netcraft supervisor validation is used to contain the impact of any false reporting). Currently the toolbar is only available for IE but a Firefox version is under development."
Netcraft confirms it. Only /. readers are ever going to use this.
*ducks*
"An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program."
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered phishing community when IDC confirmed that successful phishing attempts have dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all phish-mails sent out. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that phishing has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Phishing is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive scam list.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict phishing's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Phishing faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for phishing because phishing is dying. Things are looking very bad for phishing. As many of us are already aware, phishing continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of fish-blood.
CitiBank phishes are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core spam-relays. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time phishmeisters developers Gordon "Bassmaster" Hubble and Frank "Fifth Third" Blackman only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Phishing is dying.
Fact: Phishing is dying
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
From: admin@netcrapht.com
To: slashdottroll@hawtmail.com
Date: 2004/12/28
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Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.