Phishing

Phishing uses faked emails or other messages, spoofed to appear to come from anywhere from your bank, PayPal, to your email provider, designed to entice you to reveal your account details to the scammer.

What is Phishing?
Anti-Spoofing Tools
Corporate Phishing Countermeasures
Phishing Archives
Other Identity Theft

Anti-Spoofing Tools

Reviews of Anti-Spoofing Tools
Anti-Spoofing Browser Tools
Anti-Spoofing Email Tools
Phishing blacklists

Reviews of Anti-Spoofing Tools

Gone Phishing: Evaluating Anti-Phishing Tools for Windows - www.3sharp.com/projects/antiphish/
Firefox 2 Phishing Protection Effectiveness Testing - www.mozilla.org/security/phishing-test.html
Phinding Phish: An Evaluation of Anti-Phishing Toolbars - lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/toolbars.html
Protect Yourself With an Antiphishing Toolbar - www.pcworld.com/article/125739-1/article.html

Anti-Spoofing Browser Tools

Toolbars for Internet Explorer and Firefox can help distinguish between fake phishing sites and real banking sites.

SpoofStick - www.spoofstick.com/
TrustBar - trustbar.mozdev.org/
Netcraft Toolbar - toolbar.netcraft.com/
eBay Toolbar - pages.ebay.com/ebay_toolbar/
CallingID - www.callingid.com/Default.aspx
Phishing – Browser-based Defences - www.gerv.net/security/phishing-browser-defences.html
Trust Toolbar - www.trusttoolbar.com/
SpoofGuard - crypto.stanford.edu/SpoofGuard/
PwdHash - crypto.stanford.edu/PwdHash/
McAfee SiteAdvisor - www.siteadvisor.com/
RoboForm - www.roboform.com/anti-phish.html
SiteHound - www.firetrust.com/en/products/sitehound
GralicWrap - www.gralicwrap.com/
Google Safe Browsing for Firefox - www.google.com/tools/firefox/safebrowsing/index.html
Anti-Phishing Alarm in Deep Net Explorer - www.deepnetexplorer.com/tour/tour_04.asp
VerificationEngine - www.contentverification.com/
Phishing Defense against IDN Address Spoofing Attacks - www.quero.at/papers/idn_spoofing.pdf
OpenDNS - www.opendns.com/
Compete Toolbar - home.compete.com/
Fraud Shield - www.fraudwatchinternational.com/fraud_shield/product-features/
Site Safe - www.site-safe.org/
Foxie Firewall - www.getfoxie.com/feature/firewall/
WOT - www.mywot.com/
URL Fixer Firefox extension - www.chrisfinke.com/addons/url-fixer/
Norton Internet Security - www.symantec.com/norton/products/index.jsp
PhishTank SiteChecker - phishtanksitechecker.com/
TrendProtect - www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/tools/security_tools/trendprotect
Finjan SecureBrowsing - addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4892
ID AntiPhishing - www.idsecuritysuite.com/products/id-antiphishing.htm
TrustPlus - www.trustplus.com/
ScrubIT - www.scrubit.com/

Anti-Spoofing Email Tools

TrustedSource Toolbar - research.ciphertrust.com/tools.php?tool=toolbar
Phishing Detector v.1.0 For OE - www.fairtradeauthority.com/phishing_detector.php
Iconix eMail ID - www.iconix.com/
Delphish - www.delphish.com/

Client Side Spam Filters

Phishing blacklists

Phishing content blacklists

Phishing website IP blacklists

Corporate Phishing Countermeasures

Corporate Authentication Phishing Countermeasures
Corporate Management Phishing Countermeasure

Open Redirectors

Corporate Authentication Phishing Countermeasures

Simple web-based techniques can be used by companies to give assurance to customers that they are on the right website.

Identity Cues - www.greenarmor.com/identity_cues.shtml
Entrust IdentityGuard - www.entrust.com/strong-authentication/identityguard/
RSA Consumer Solutions - www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=3017 - was PassMark and Cyota FraudAction
PortWise - www.portwise.com/
ActivIdentity - www.actividentity.com/
WiKID HTTPS Mutual Authentication - www.wikidsystems.net/
Active Cookies - www.ravenwhite.com/technology.html
Digital Resolve Trusted Server - www.digital-resolve.net/solutions/trusted_server.html
Ceelox ID Online - www.ceelox.com/ceeloxidonline.html

Web Identity Management

Corporate Management Phishing Countermeasures

How not to look like a Phish - www.truste.org/pdf/How_Not_Look_Like_Phish.pdf
FSTC Counter-Phishing Initiative - www.fstc.org/scom/security_scom.php
Phish Report Network - www.phishreport.net/
MarkMonitor's Fraud Protection - www.markmonitor.com/
RSA Security FraudAction - www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=3020
Phishing, Identity Theft and Bank Fraud Detection - audited.netcraft.com/bank-fraud-detection
Consumer Protection Advice Service - sharecube.com/consumer-advice-alert-service.html
Strider URL Tracer with Typo-Patrol - research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/strider/urltracer/
Nameprep - nameprep.org/
Internet Identity - www.internetidentity.com/
Digital Resolve Fraud Analyst - www.digital-resolve.net/solutions/fraudanalyst.html
Sophos PhishAlert - www.sophos.com/products/enterprise/alert-services/phishalert.html
Support Intelligence REACT - support-intelligence.com/
Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services - www.melbourneitdbs.com/online-brand-infringement/anti-phishing-service.php
Netcraft Phishing Site Feed - news.netcraft.com/phishing-site-feed
Pramana's HumanPresent - www.pramana.com/
iovation Device Manager and Device Risk - www.iovation.com/
41st Parameter - www.the41st.com/
Fraud Detection on KDNuggets - www.kdnuggets.com/solutions/fraud-detection.html

Phishing Archives

Phishing Archive - www.antiphishing.org/phishing_archive/phishing_archive.html
Examples of Phishing Emails - banksafeonline.org.uk/phishing_examples.html
Millersmiles Honeytrap - honeytrap.millersmiles.co.uk/
Phishing Scams by Targeted Company - www.millersmiles.co.uk/scams.php
Phish tracker - www.dslreports.com/phishtrack
Open Phishing Database - opdb.berlios.de/
Phishing Alerts - www.fraudwatchinternational.com/phishing/
Internet Defence Phishery - phishery.internetdefence.net/

Spam Archives

Other Identity Theft

Identity Theft Prevention and Survival - www.identitytheft.org/
FTC ID Theft - www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft/
SSA Identity Theft - www.ssa.gov/pubs/idtheft.htm
Identity Theft and Fraud - www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fraud/idtheft.html
RCMP Identify Theft - www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/scams-fraudes/id-theft-vol-eng.htm
Email Identity Theft - www.albionresearch.com/disaster/email_identity.php
Identity Theft Resources - www.privacyrights.org/identity.htm
Fight Identity Theft - www.fightidentitytheft.com/
Identity Theft and Protecting Your Credit - www.creditinfocenter.com/identity/
ID Theft Services - idfraud.org/
Fake Credit Report Sites - www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt130.shtm
Home Office Identity Fraud Steering Committee - https://www.identitytheft.org.uk/
Identity Fraud Consumer Guide - https://www.identitytheft.org.uk/
Social Security Number Fraud - www.ssnfraud.info/
Protecting Personal Information - www.fact-sheets.com/privacy-security/protecting_personal_info/
OneGuard Online — ID Theft - www.onguardonline.gov/topics/identity-theft.aspx

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