Global Security Watch > Game with a Hook: Anti-Phishing Phil
[Digg / Educational / upcoming] Anti-Phishing Phil is an interactive game that teaches users how to identify phishing URLs, where to look for cues in web browsers, and how to use search engines to find legitimate sites. From CMU and NSF.
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[passpack Blog] Anti-Phishing Phriends: We just discovered a great little game called Anti-Phishing Phil (thanks to this blogpost). The game was created by CMU Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS).
[dragons_live] Another Class Assignment: Researchers state people are often reluctant to read tutorials or training materials, such as eBay's spoof email tutorial or even the FTC's phishing prevention guide. Researchers are careful to point out both eBay and FTC's anti-phishing efforts are surprisingly effective, but only when people actually read them.
[stopbadware Blog] Some more interactive anti-phishing content: The folks at Carnegie Mellon University have put together a fun and informative game to learn about how to avoid phishing attacks: Anti-Phishing Phil.
[Kees Leune] Anti-Phishing Phil: Anti-Phishing Phil is an interactive game that teaches users how to identify phishing URLs, where to look for cues in web browsers, and how to use search engines to find legitimate sites.
[Blog on the Side - Darlene Fichter] Learn to Smell the Phish - An Effective Way to Train Employees ...: Anti-Phishing Phil should run on any web browser that has Flash 8 installed. In addition, it runs under Flash 9 in Firefox, and usually Internet Explorer 7.
[cj's Site] Phight Phishing...: Anti-Phishing Phil is an interactive game that teaches users how to identify phishing URLs, where to look for cues in web browsers, and how to use search engines to find legitimate sites.
[BBB Consumer Education] Anti-Phishing Phil: Phun and Educational!: Our user studies have found that user education can help prevent people from falling for phishing attacks. However, it is hard to get users to read security tutorials, and many of the available online training materials make users aware of the phishing threat but do not provide them with enough information to protect themselves.
[anti ageing] AVG Free Advisor - AVG Anti-Virus Free (Anti ageing) Editionanti: A preview version of Anti-Phishing Phil is available online now! Anti-Phishing Phil is an interactive game that teaches users how to identify phishing .
[Library Arcade Development] Other Carnegie Mellon University Games - Antiphishing Phil: Anti-phishing game from Carnegie Mellon and CUPS. http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/antiphishing_phil/
[Email Yogi - The blog of NCR eCommerce] Anti-Phishing Phil: Not exactly our Phil (the Cable Guy) but equally as informative - Carnegie Mellon Universitys (CMU) Privacy and Security Laboratory has devised an online game to help raise awareness about phishing attacks.
[Melissa's blog] Making a game out of phishing: Her team has developed a great game to help people learn how to spot Phishing attempts. Anti-Phishing-Phil is a tiny little fish whose adventures teach him about .
[Technically Overboard] Phishing Game Teaches Noobs: Featuring a cartoon fish named Phil, the game, called Anti-Phishing Phil, has been tested in CMUs Privacy and Security Laboratory. Officials with the lab say users who spent 15 minutes playing the interactive, online game were better .
[Brown Thoughts] Spot The Phish And Get A Chance To Win A $100 Amazon Gift Card: We should all pass this quiz along to our relatives. Though with our luck they wouldn’t find the time to check out the link even though they’d surely find the time to get duped by a phishing scam.
[Tuneup Talk] Spammers and Phishers Under the Microscope: Now theyre on the Internet, so the people at CMU have developed the “anti-phishing Phil” game as a teaching tool. Making security training into a game is a good idea, since the modern generation has the attention span of an ant with .
[ThinkTime] links for 2007-10-02: Anti-Phishing Phil is an interactive game that teaches users how to identify phishing URLs, where to look for cues in web browsers, and how to use search engines to find legitimate sites.
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