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But the APWG warns that Avalanche will likely show its face again.
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Despite the resistance, Mather isn't giving up on the APWG's proposal.
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"We're still very excited about this at the APWG, " she says.
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Working with the registries that control and distribute domain names, the APWG is crafting a system that would accredit security organizations to act as the Web's watchdogs, identifying phishing sites.
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The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), a consortium of cybersecurity firms and Web businesses, is pushing a new initiative to streamline the process of permanently deleting fraud sites from the Web.
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That's a good start, says APWG's Mather--but not sufficient.
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In the second half of 2009, the APWG tracked 126, 698 fake sites aimed at tricking users into giving up sensitive personal information such as credit card numbers or infecting them with malicious software.
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Fast flux, probably innovated by a Russian cybercriminal gang known as Rock Phish, automatically changes the physical computer hosting a site as quickly as every two minutes, says Laura Mather, the APWG's director of operations.
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Verisign, for instance, which administers the Web's millions of .com and .net sites, has declined to comment on the APWG initiative even though it is a member of APWG and has long supported the group's anti-phishing advocacy work.
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