Aug 18, 2004 : Go Daddy Joins Anti-Phishing Group

📅 August 18, 2004 - The Go Daddy Group, parent company of domain registrar and Web hosting provider Go Daddy (godaddy.com 👉 Total Reviews: 81
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Phishing attacks involve the mass distribution of "spoofed" or forged email messages with return addresses, links, and branding that appear to come from legitimate financial institutions but are designed to lead recipients towards fraudulent Web sites that attempt to trick them into divulging personal data such as account usernames, passwords, credit card numbers and social security numbers.
"It's great to have Go Daddy join the APWG and look at the problems phishing presents from the point of view of a domain registrar," says Peter Cassidy, secretary general of APWG. "We have a number of members who study aspects of phishing from the brand- and trademark-holders points of view, and those who highlight the earliest possible interventions ? pre-attack if at all possible ? based on domain registration intelligence. Those discussions will be enormously enriched by Go Daddy's industrial insight, technical savvy in e-commerce security and, of course, the company's can-do style."
Go Daddy says it has an in-house fraud department dedicated to helping customers fight online fraud and offers a number of products and services, such as SSL certificates, that are designed to help customers protect themselves from online phishing scams.