Researchers at a secretive security summit hosted by Yahoo revealed new ways they are finding phishers and other bad sites
Dark Reading reports that at a closed-door security summit hosted on Yahoo’s Sunnyvale campus last week, a researcher demonstrated a new technique to more easily identify phishing and other malicious Websites.
Dan Hubbard, vice president of security research for Websense, showed a tool Websense researchers have built that detects domains that were automatically registered by machines rather than humans -- a method increasingly being used by the bad guys, he says. “[Automation] is being used more and more,†Hubbard says.
Not much of the contents of the so-called ISOI conference typically seeps beyond the confines of this annual closed-door event: It’s set up to accommodate the privacy and sensitivity of the content and information shared, as well as the attendees themselves. But some participants, including Hubbard, were willing to discuss some elements of the ISOI 4 summit.
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