Comments on: Phil the fish phishing school

Phil the fish phishing school

dr. moot — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:04:49 -0800

Want to teach the youngsters (or parents, or yourself) how to avoid phishing scams? Anti-Phishing Phil is an online-game that uses Phil the fish to teach just that. Apparently it's more successful than a tutorial with the same information.

By: SassHat

SassHat — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:19:48 -0800

I have some friends who need to see this...

By: soundofsuburbia

soundofsuburbia — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:32:15 -0800

I'm learning and eating worms at the same time! Wee! Explorer, though? Hmm...

By: Fisherkitty

Fisherkitty — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:32:42 -0800

I failed the second round. Sadness. This is a pretty good learning tool.

By: mullacc

mullacc — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:50:54 -0800

username: mullacc password: buttslol

By: jasonhong

jasonhong — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:20:58 -0800

Thanks for the plug for our work! Oddly enough, I joined MetaFilter last week to comment on a post about my colleague Randy Pausch, and come back and see a post about work done by my colleagues and me. Please let us know if you have any ideas for improving the game. Phil is part of our group's efforts to protect people from phishing attacks. We've also developed an email training system, and several algorithms for automatically detecting phishing email and phishing web sites. Our group's larger goal is to make usable privacy and security a reality. A shameless plug: I'm giving a talk at MIT tomorrow (Friday) at 2PM summarizing all of our work on anti-phishing. It's in the Patil/Kiva Seminar Room (32-G449) in the Stata Center, part of the Human-Computer Interaction seminar. Would love to meet any of you if you can make it. You can also see an older version of my anti-phishing talk on Google Video. Finally, if any of you are in the Pittsburgh area, Carnegie Mellon University is hosting the Anti-Phishing Working Group's eCrime Research Summit, Oct 4-5.

By: spec80

spec80 — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:49:25 -0800

I'm going to send this to my dad. Thanks!

By: jonp72

jonp72 — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:59:01 -0800

Anti-Phishing Phil sez, "Your favorite jam band sucks!"

By: phoque

phoque — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:55:40 -0800

Excellent post. jasonhong outstanding additional information. Watched your presentation on google ... good show! Thanks for sharing.