[pchelpers] News:Nationwide cracks down on phishing

Automatic tracking technology helps shut down fake web sites faster,
says the building society

Tom Young, Computing 19 Apr 2007

Nationwide Building Society has improved its anti-phishing technology to
help shut down fake web sites faster, after becoming an increasingly
regular target of phishers.

The financial services firm has formed a strategic fraud group and
installed anti-phishing software from vendor MarkMonitor to respond to
attacks.

ʽIt became extremely difficult to shut down phishing sites fast enough
and cope with the number of incoming emails from customers reporting
phishing attacks or suspicious-looking web sites,ʼ said Peter Corrie,
head of Nationwideʼs strategic fraud initiative.

In the past, Nationwide staff manually tracked phishing scams carried
out against the company, but this is now performed automatically which
means less customers become phishing victims.

More here:
http://www.activehome.co.uk/computing/news/2188055/nationwide-cracks-phishing
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