Microsoft today announced the Global Phishing Enforcement Initiative (GPEI) which in collaboration with governments and law agencies will protect users from phising offenders and provide solutions to user's phishing problems. For the uninitiated, phishing is a recent phenomena where hackers impersonate emails from companies like eBay, Paypal and create general havoc by faking websites for collecting usernames/passwords. "Phishing is a crime. It undermines consumers' trust in the Internet and is an impediment to European policy-makers' and industries' efforts to boost citizens' use of innovative and valuable Internet services," said Neil Holloway, president of Microsoft Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
While anti phishing technology has been seen before in Microsoft's products, the new Internet Explorer 7 will see it in a larger scale. Due by end of the month the beta version is s considered "layout complete," meaning that the browser's rendering engine is the same as it will be when the product ships. Microsoft will also now alerts the users regarding emails which claim to be providing a link to a specific company URL but instead link to an alternative address. Now after the Microsoft announcement, other companies will also developing new anti-phishing technologies.
At a technology forum in Brussels hosted by EuroISPA - the European Internet Services Providers Association, and co-sponsored by Interpol, Neil Holloway, president, Microsoft (Europe, Middle East and Africa), inaugurated a global law enforcement campaign targeted at cybercriminals responsible for phishing attacks.
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Sourced By Tanya Palta. Edited by Colbert Low
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