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A Tour of the Google Blacklist
WienerPizza writes "Michael Sutton takes us on a tour of the Google blacklist, a list of suspected phishing sites. He finds that eBay, PayPal and Bank of America combined account for 63% of the active phishing sites. Amusingly, he also reveals that Yahoo! has a nasty habit of hosting phishing sites that harvest — you guessed it — Yahoo! credentials!"
Judging by the huge proportion of the blacklisted sites that are offline (and the tiny fraction that are actually phishing sites) it seems Google isn't taking this seriously enough. There is much, much more than 341 phishing sites in the world. This list should be being updated daily, they should start a way for suggesting sites or, if it exists, make it more visible.
For the only external blacklisting organisation on Firefox, and as the provider for possibly the most widely used toolbar ever, they're not taking this seriously enough. But would any security company come in with a better free blacklist?
Any grammatical or spelling errors above are for comic effect, and do not signify imperfection in the writer.
Yeah, because DNS is something that you should obviously trust a single company about!
Who need that old DNS system with the robust infrastructure, when we can have ads pushed on us for every domain we mistype and alongside our search results!
Someone call Verisign and tell them to fire sitefinder back up, these guys need some competition!
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Go there and put in false information. Make it harder for them to get valid data.
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