[pchelpers] News:Fish named Phil helps foil phishers

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 | 12:31 PM ET


Playing an online game beats computer tutorials or written materials in
arming people against phishing attacks, Carnegie Mellon University
computer scientists have determined.

The scientists tested an online game they developed, Anti-Phishing Phil,
against a tutorial they created based on the game and existing online
materials.

After 15-minute tests, "We found that participants who played the game
were better able to identify fraudulent websites, compared to the
participants in other conditions," the researchers reported in a paper
presented at an online security symposium in July.

More here:
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/09/26/phil-phish.html
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