PhishTank
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| Offshoot of OpenDNS | |
| Industry | Computer |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
Key people | David Ulevitch (Founder & CEO) |
Number of employees | 10 |
| Parent | OpenDNS |
| Website |
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PhishTank is an anti-phishing site.
PhishTank was launched in October 2006 by entrepreneur David Ulevitch as an offshoot of OpenDNS. The company offers a community-based phish verification system where users submit suspected phishes and other users "vote" if it is a phish or not.
PhishTank is used by Opera,[1] WOT,[2] Yahoo! Mail, Mcafee, APWG, CMU, ST Benard, Mozilla, Kaspersky, Firetrust, Officer Blue, FINRA, Message Level, SURBL, Sanesecurity for ClamAV,[3] Career Builder, Site Truth, Avira,[4] C-SIRT, and by PhishTank SiteChecker.[5][6]
PhishTank data is provided gratis for download or for access via an API call, including for commercial use, under a restrictive license.
See also
References
- ↑ PhishTank Blog » Blog Archive » Welcome Opera Community!
- ↑ PhishTank Blog » Blog Archive » WOT uses PhishTank data
- ↑ "Signatures - Sanesecurity ClamAV: Phishing, Spam & Malware Signatures".
- ↑ Friends of Phishtank
- ↑ PhishTank Blog » Blog Archive » SiteChecker brings PhishTank into Firefox
- ↑ PhishTank SiteChecker
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