The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), in consultation with the ICANN Registrar Constituency and several domain name registrars, has published a "best practices" advisory for registrars to help them implement mechanisms to make it more difficult to register and use domains for illicit uses such as phishing, a confidence scheme used to dupe consumers out of personal financial information.

Cyveillance, the leading provider of online risk monitoring and management solutions, today announced the availability of its comprehensive anti-phishing data feeds as part of a new OEM Content Program.

By John Gillie, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Sep. 4--They've got no visible tatoos. They don't answer to "Dog" and they aren't particularly adept at kicking down doors. Their jobs require more technical finesse than muscle and more persistence than pugilism.