Re: An APWG Panel Lobbies Web Registries to Shut Down Phishing Sites

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

OMG:  Internet Censorship rears its ugly head! ;-)

 

Richard

 

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Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 6:08 PM
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Subject: [funsec] An APWG Panel Lobbies Web Registries to Shut Down Phishing
Sites

 

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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