Anti-Phishing Redirect Saves 11,000 Users
- By Kayla Fleming on May 24, 2007
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You may remember my recent blog about our network's anti-phishing page. Basically, when we find a compromised account on a server, we apply a redirection on any phish content (dimenoc.com/antiphish) rather than just disabling the page from view. Ray, one of our lead abuse administrators, analyzed the web stats for our phishing redirect page. In only four months over 11,000 unique IP addresses have hit the page. Can you believe it? Some of those visitors may not have fell for the scams (had they still been online), but for the rest: this amount of visits is startling. I was not expecting so many hits! I thought the Internet community was largely around this curve. There is obviously a lot of teaching yet to be done.I am very pleased that those Internet users have been saved by our actions. Hopefully many of them will never click such links again and help others to understand the same. This redirection method may be one of our last chances to educate, at least where "phish spam" is concerned.Our overall experience with this has truly inspired me so I will be writing further about this topic in my next post. Feel free to comment with your thoughts and any ideas. More About Kayla
As Vice President of Surpass Hosting, Kayla has experience in all areas of web hosting from conducting market research to securing server environments. Kayla has worked with Internet companies for nine years and has been involved in the web hosting industry since 2002. Under Kayla's direction, Surpa... (Read full bio)
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Comment by Anonymous on Thursday, May 24, 2007
We have created an outlook plugin which we released a few weeks ago to combat against phishing.
You can view the details here...
http://bluefur.com/phishphinder/
If anyone is interested in distributing this to there customers contact me at gjones at bluefur.com.
Phishing is a real problem and education and awareness is the only way to address the issue.
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