Phishing: the act of attempting to fraudulently acquire through deception sensitive personal information such as passwords and credit card details by masquerading in an official-looking email, IM, etc. as someone trustworthy with a real need for such information. [www.wikipedia.org]
Phishing is one of the major internet threats now. It is a serious problem that seems to get more serious by the day. Phishing sites are popping up as I am writing this. So allow me to introduce you to the Netcraft Anti-Phishing Toolbar. It consists of a user interface implemented as a toolbar and central servers, able to respond quickly to large numbers of requests as each user moves around the web. The central servers are managed by Netcraft and hold the information about URLs and sites provided by the the Toolbar community and Netcraft. It is available for both IE and FireFox. Download here;
