In Praise of Phish Fighters

It isn't often that the public is afforded a peek into federal law enforcement efforts to combat "phishing" scams, fraudulent e-mail lures for Web sites created to assume the look of trusted online brands and steal personal information. But February marks the 5th anniversary of CastleCops.com -- an all-volunteer led forum that has morphed from a place where people can diagnose security problems with their PCs into one of the most active phish fighting forums -- and the group is releasing some interesting data to highlight its accomplishments.

Readers who are interested in more detail on the data can drill down through a series of interesting slides that CastleCops founder Paul Laudanski showed at an uber-secret security confab at Microsoft's campus last week. The speaker's list for that conference reads like a veritable who's-who of security professionals and researchers.

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