A phishing neighborhood watch for the Internet, that is. And an initiative pushed by OpenDNS. PhishTankis designed as a free of charge community web service meant to centralize, evaluate, track and share phishing data. Officially launched on October 2, the website has seen a consistent response as no less than 330 online suspect phishing destinations were submitted and 160 verified, just in the first 36 hours.

"The PhishTank community site employs a sophisticated voting system that requires the community to vote "phish" or "not phish," reducing the possibility of false positives and improving the overall breadth and coverage of the phishing data. Unlike other anti-phishing groups, PhishTank makes all phishing data it accumulates public and available via programmable APIs, which allows other software developers to incorporate the anti-phishing data into their tools. The open access is intended to encourage the sharing of information and increase the chance of eliminating phishing all together," noted OpenDNS inb a press release describing the initiative.