Type Offshoot of OpenDNS Website www.phishtank.com Founded 2006 Parent organization OpenDNS | Industry Computer Founder David Ulevitch Number of employees 10 | |
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Key people David Ulevitch (Founder & CEO) Headquarters San Francisco, California, United States Motto Out of the Net, into the Tank. Key person David Ulevitch (Founder & CEO) | ||
PhishTank is an anti-phishing site.
PhishTank was launched in October 2006 by entrepreneur David Ulevitch as an offshoot of OpenDNS. The company offers a community-based phish verification system where users submit suspected phishes and other users "vote" if it is a phish or not.
PhishTank is used by Opera, WOT, Yahoo! Mail, Mcafee, APWG, CMU, ST Benard, Mozilla, Kaspersky, Firetrust, Officer Blue, FINRA, Message Level, SURBL, Sanesecurity for ClamAV, Career Builder, Site Truth, Avira, C-SIRT, and by PhishTank SiteChecker.
PhishTank data is provided gratis for download or for access via an API call, including for commercial use, under a restrictive license.
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