OpenDNS Announces February PhishTank Findings

United States Hosting Nearly Half of All Phishing Sites in February.

San Francisco (PRWEB) March 7, 2008 -- OpenDNS (www.opendns.com), the award-winning DNS service that makes the Internet safer, faster, smarter and more reliable, today announced February 2008 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 February, the PhishTank community voted more than 76,000 times on more than 17,000 suspected phishes. OpenDNS is the world's largest, fastest-growing DNS service. PhishTank is the only consumer-friendly, anti-phishing effort that publicly shares timely phishing data.

Highlights from the February 2008 PhishTank statistics include:

Total number of votes by the PhishTank community: 76,615

Total number of unique, suspected phishing scams reported: 17,303

Country hosting the most phishing sites: United States

Percentage of phishing sites hosted in United States: 42

Median time it took for the PhishTank community to verify phishes: 10 hours, 15 minutes

For more detailed information about PhishTank's February 2008 statistics, including graphics you can use on your Web site, please visit: http://www.phishtank.com/stats/2008/02/

About PhishTank
PhishTank is operated by OpenDNS and is the first and only effort of its kind. Launched in October 2006 to coincide with National Cyber Security Awareness Month, the site 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: http://www.phishtank.com

About OpenDNS
OpenDNS makes the Internet safer, faster, smarter and more reliable. Based in 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: http://www.opendns.com

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