[LINK] Microsoft, eBay, Visa form Phish Report Network

[Eric Scheid]

Microsoft, eBay, Visa form Phish Report Network
Paul Roberts, IDG News Service
15/02/2005 08:35:50

To make it easier to identify and react to new scam Web sites, Microsoft,
eBay and Visa International are launching a program to share information
about online identity theft scams known as "phishing attacks," they said
Monday.

 The companies will use the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week to
unveil the Phish Report Network, an antiphishing service that aggregates
reports of phishing attacks and issues alerts about new phishing Web sites
to subscribers. The service is being sponsored by end-point security company
WholeSecurity, according to a statement from WholeSecurity.

 Phishing scams are online crimes that use spam to direct Internet users to
Web sites designed to look like legitimate e-commerce sites, but which are
controlled by thieves. Users are asked to provide sensitive information such
as passwords, bank account information or credit card numbers, often under
the guise of updating an account

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