EU to fund Symantec phishing studies
Security firm in consortium researching phishing prevention.
Symantec announced yesterday an award of funding from the European Commission to pay for research into securing
email infrastructures from spam and phishing. Along with several other major corporations and research institutions,
Symantec forms part of the EU's AntiPhish consortium.
Symantec's UK and Ireland divisions are working alongside pan-European ISP Tiscali, global communications
giant Nortel, research organisation the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information
Systems (IAIS) and Belgian university K.U.Leuven to develop recognition and filtering techniques capable of
spotting and blocking new forms and patterns of phishing. The three-year project's title is apparently an acronym for
'Anticipatory Learning for Reliable Phishing Prevention'.
The AntiPhish homepage is here, and a
Symantec press release on the funding award is
here.
05 December 2006
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