OpenDNS Shares October 2006 PhishTank Statistics

PhishTank Goes From Zero to 94,000 in First Month

SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) November 3, 2006 -- OpenDNS (www.opendns.com), the DNS provider that makes the Internet safer, faster and smarter for you and everyone using your network, today announced October 2006 statistics for PhishTank (www.phishtank.com), the free, community Web site where anyone can submit, verify, track and share phishing data. During the month of October, the PhishTank community voted more than 94,000 times on more than 7,300 suspected phishes. PhishTank is the only consumer-friendly, anti-phishing effort that publicly shares timely phishing data.

Highlights from the October 2006 PhishTank statistics include:

Total number of votes by the PhishTank community: 94,602

Total number of unique, suspected phishing scams reported: 7,312

Country hosting the most phishing sites: United States

Percentage of phishing sites hosted in the United States: 24

Average time it took for the PhishTank community to verify phishes: 18 minutes

For more detailed information about PhishTank's October 2006 statistics, including graphics you can use on your Web site, please visit http://www.phishtank.com/stats/2006/10/

About PhishTank

Launched Oct. 2, 2006 to coincide with National Cyber Security Awareness Month, PhishTank employs a sophisticated voting system that requires the community to vote "phish" or "not phish," reducing the possibility of false positives and improving the overall breadth and coverage of the phishing data. PhishTank makes all phishing data it accumulates public and available via programmable APIs, which allow other software developers to incorporate the anti-phishing data into their tools. The open access is intended to encourage the sharing of information and increase the chance of eliminating phishing all together. For more information about PhishTank, please visit www.phishtank.com.

About OpenDNS

OpenDNS makes the Internet safer, faster and smarter. Based out of San Francisco, the company operates a large distributed network that powers a new kind of recursive DNS (Domain Name System) service that provides all Internet users increased security, reliability and performance. OpenDNS is thoroughly committed to building and operating the best DNS platform in the world and to improving the Internet. For more information about OpenDNS, please visit: www.opendns.com.

Contact:
Allison Rhodes
Community Manager
415.344.3150

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