[pchelpers] News:Two new Web sites let users find and report phishing

  Sites represent a growing movement to fight back against growing 
security problem

By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
March 27, 2006

Security vendors are launching two Web sites aimed at helping people 
report and avoid phishing attacks. The Phishing Incident Reporting and 
Termination Squad (PIRT) is as a volunteer effort designed to take down 
phishing sites; CipherTrust's (Profile, Products, Articles) 
PhishRegistry.org site, due to be launched Tuesday, will be a service 
designed to warn legitimate Web sites when they are being spoofed by 
phishers.

The PIRT site is looking for volunteers so it can report on new phishing 
scams and get in touch with authorities to have the Web sites in 
question taken down as quickly as possible.

"It’s the first public takedown community we know of, and we hope to 
start nailing these sites," the site's founders said in a statement. 
PIRT is being managed by anti-spyware vendor Sunbelt Software and 
Computer Cops, owners of the CastleCops online security network.

More here:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/03/27/76850_HNantiphishing_1.html

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