Comments on: Introducing PhishTank

By: How To Spot A Psychopath :: Poor little phishies :: October :: 2006

How To Spot A Psychopath :: Poor little phishies :: October :: 2006 — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:49:15 +0000

[...] I have, however, been submitting phish to an online reporting service for a while now. I’ve been using CastleCops’ Fried Phish/PIRT for long enough that most of their four digit captchas are already in the drop-down autocomplete menu (boy, that’s helpful!), and just the other day discovered the brand new PhishTank, as well. [...]

By: Lloyd D Budd

Lloyd D Budd — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:10:45 +0000

If PhishTank was free as in WordPress that would include downloading the source, which isn’t necessarily a good thing when it is is in some people’s interest to game the system.

This is a small point in an otherwise great article about a great service!

By: Drop those phish in the Phishtank » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work

Drop those phish in the Phishtank » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:36:19 +0000

[...] There are a couple of interesting things about PhishTank, including the fact that it has an open API (application programming interface), as Paul Stamatiou notes, which means that anyone can design an application that makes use of the data in PhishTank in different ways. The service is also working on toolbar buttons for Thunderbird and Outlook that will allow users to send a suspected phish to the tank with a single click. There’s also a bit of community built in, with pages that rank the top submitters and verifiers. [...]

By: mahesh

mahesh — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:11:34 +0000

That was good find paul.
I wish you can find some spyware and activx based virus installer sites.such sites should be included in that site as well.
Good work.Keep it up.

By: Laughing Squid » PhishTank

Laughing Squid » PhishTank — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:32:01 +0000

[...] Check out Paul Stamatiou’s great write-up on the launch of PhishTank. tags: security (T) , Open API (T) , OpenDNS (T) , PhishTank (T) , phishing (T) , anti-phishing (T) posted by Scott Beale on Monday, October 2nd, 2006 Comments RSS feed | Trackback URL [...]

By: Thoughts Of Your Future Dictator

Thoughts Of Your Future Dictator — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:49:26 +0000

OpenDNS and PhishTank…

I’ve been meaning to check out OpenDNS for some time now and finally got around to it, in part thanks to Paul and WordPress developer Matt Mullenweg’s blog post. I’m only playing with it in my dorm right now (I set it up as my static …

By: Justin Bellmor

Justin Bellmor — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:18:25 +0000

It’s an interesting user driven service that attempts to solve a nasty problem. I can’t wait to see a SpamAssassin plugin and email client plugins. I’ll be interested to see the stats on false positives, total positive hits, percent of phishing mails it hits, and such down the road. If it ends up having good accurancy and a very low occurance of false positives, it will end up being a valuable service. The service has a great interface and it will become much more useful once email plugins are available (as well as any number of applications where phishing is an issue). I’d love to see a “Submit to PhishTank” button next to the “Not Junk” button in messages flagged as junk in Mail.app.

By: David Ulevitch

David Ulevitch — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:51:07 +0000

Wow, that was fast! Thanks for the awesome write-up.

Since your blog is read by smart folks and smart folks might ask why we’re doing this I’ll just save them from wading through the FAQ:

From the FAQ: “OpenDNS is interested in having the best available information about phishing websites. However, phishing data is not a place to be competitive, and we believe that sharing this data freely (even with those who do not contribute) will benefit us all.”

Finally, we’re just getting started with the API, so we are definitely looking for functions and things to add. We’ll be doing that all week. We also hope to have a Thunderbird extension and outlook plug-in ready sometime this week (but it might take another weekend :-) ).