AplusWebMaster
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FYI…
- http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix…tiphishing.html
December 11, 2007 - "…According to the latest stats from the Anti-Phishing Working Group, 84 percent of scam sites spotted in August used a registered Web site name… Most readers are unlikely to recognize any of the registrars in the list of the registrars that lead the industry in fighting phishing. But among the bottom performers, according to MarkMonitor, is Register.com, which took an average of 313 hours - or more than 13 days - to revoke Web site names that were used in phishing scams in the third quarter of 2007. That's more than four times the normal life of a phishing site: The APWG says the average scam site lives online for just over three days…"
(Charts for best and worst available at the URL above.)
- http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix…tiphishing.html
December 11, 2007 - "…According to the latest stats from the Anti-Phishing Working Group, 84 percent of scam sites spotted in August used a registered Web site name… Most readers are unlikely to recognize any of the registrars in the list of the registrars that lead the industry in fighting phishing. But among the bottom performers, according to MarkMonitor, is Register.com, which took an average of 313 hours - or more than 13 days - to revoke Web site names that were used in phishing scams in the third quarter of 2007. That's more than four times the normal life of a phishing site: The APWG says the average scam site lives online for just over three days…"
(Charts for best and worst available at the URL above.)