An APWG Panel Lobbies Web Registries to Shut Down Phishing Sites

["Alex Eckelberry" <AlexE () sunbelt-software com>]

I must have missed this one.

http://www.digitaltransactions.net/newsstory.cfm?newsid=1677

(February 19, 2008) A potent new technique that phishing fraudsters have
started using to thwart efforts to shut down their bogus Web sites has
inspired a panel at the Anti-Phishing Working Group to hammer out a new
policy that would get domain registries to disable criminal sites. The
new policy, called the domain suspension initiative, would shut down a
site across an entire Internet domain, rather than just on the servers
of a particular Internet Service Provider (ISP), says Laura Mather,
co-chair of the APWG's domain name systems policy working group and
until recently an executive at San Francisco-based security firm
MarkMonitor Inc. 

 

 

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