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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