Tuesday, July 31, 2007  Average Online Time for Phishing Sites
Some vendors specialize in clustering phishing attacks to better
understand the phishing ecosystem and reveal all of its nodes.
Others too, armed with opportunistic business development
strategies are developing a market segment to provide their
customers with services for timely shutting down a phishing or
malicious web site. Symantec recently released informative
averages on the time a phishing site remains online, confirming
the need for a such a market segment and prompting the
discussion on alternative solutions :  "Our analysis shows how
ISPs in some countries are relatively slower than others to shut
down attacks. For example, Taiwan’s average shutdown time has
been only 19 hours on 92 attacks, while in Australia the average
for 98 attacks has been almost one week for a single shutdown.
Other countries slow to respond include the USA and India.
Countries identified as responding quickly include Germany,
Netherlands, Japan, Estonia, Poland