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Beating phishers at their own game
Posted on Apr 4, 2006 by Tom Fragala
Cnet has a story about a company called Cyota. They are doing something pretty cool to fight back against phishers. It’s sort of simple and obvious..and very clever.
RSA Security's Cyota division is helping fight phishing attacks by giving the online fraudsters what they want: a lot of usernames, passwords, online-banking credentials and credit card numbers.
Phishing occurs when cybercriminals set up fraudulent copies of a genuine Web site--usually of a financial institution--and try to lure customers of that organization into visiting the site and entering their login credentials and other personal details.
Unfortunately for the phishers, one of the techniques Cyota is using to help protect its banking customers is to pump such fraudulent Web sites with so many fake entries that the genuine details are harder to find, according to Naftali Bennett, senior vice president of consumer solutions at RSA and co-founder of Cyota, which was acquired by the security giant late last year.
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