(Source: Business Wire)
The APWG and Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab Usable Privacy and
Security Laboratory (CUPS) will announce tomorrow the deployment of
their real-time counter-eCrime education system designed to instruct
consumers the moment they've been pulled into a phishing scam.
The AWPG/CUPS Phishing Education Landing Page Program delivers online
safety education - free - to consumers who've clicked on links in
phishing mails by redirecting them away from the URLs of decommissioned
phishing websites onward to a page of Internet security and safety
instruction hosted by the APWG.
The goal of this initiative is to instruct the most at-risk consumers
about online safety at the "most teachable moment" when they have just
clicked on a link in a phishing communication, a key moment of error
discovery in which one is more receptive to instruction - and better
able to retain its essential messages.
The Phishing Education Landing Page is here: http://education.apwg.org/r/
A project description is here: http://education.apwg.org/r/about.html
Project white paper is posted here: http://www.antiphishing.org/reports/APWG_CMU_Landing_Pages_Project.pdf
Dr. Laura Mather, director of operational policy at APWG and co-chair of
the APWG's Internet Policy Committee, an in-house think tank of
security, law enforcement, technology and industrial policy
professionals said, "It's inspiring to see so many people from different
aspects of the electronic crime fighting community come together for
this vital online consumer safety project. Through this initiative, so
many from industry, government and law enforcement have volunteered
time, resources, and energy and having it all come together to protect
global online consumers is incredible."
The APWG's members, research collaborators and CUPS have been working
together on the project since the APWG's 2007 Fall eCrime Researchers
Summit in Pittsburgh, the APWG's peer-reviewed research conference,
where they were inspired by a paper delivered by then-CMU graduate
student PonnurangamKumaraguru, an assistant professor at Indraprastha
Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in Delhi, about the utility
of a redirect system in helping to education users.
Dr. Mather and the APWG/IPC members worked with CUPS' principals to
craft the landing page content based on Prof.
