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Aug 03 2008

China forms Anti-Phishing Alliance

Published by Heike under Hacking for money

Calling on any government to fix a problem, gives you a dicey chance at best that it will be resolved. Now, call on the people who have skin in the game to assist and your odds of getting results rise exponentially.

From CNNIC, Chinese companies form Anti-Phishing Alliance:

In order to tackle phishing activities using CN domain names and to protect online safety, Anti-phishing Alliance of China (APAC) was founded on July 18, 2008. Its founding members include Chinese banks, securities companies, e-commerce companies, CN registry and registrars, as well as scholars. CNNIC, the registry of .CN, was appointed as the secretariat of APAC.

CNNIC was authorized to accept reporting about phishing sites, to organize an phishing site identification, and to stop its DNS resolution at once a phishing-site using CN domain name is identified.

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