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

.

Posted on 05 December 2006 by

Virus Bulletin