Spamhaus, a leading anti-spam and security organization, has accused Yahoo of failing in the fight against online fraud.


Spamhaus, a leading anti-spam and security organization, accuses Yahoo and says that it has failed in the fight against online fraud.

Richard Cox, chief information officer of Spamhaus, told an audience of politicians, security experts and law enforcement officials in a conference in London, “eConfidence–Spam and Scams”, that Yahoo has just under 5,000 domains hosted and registered with the words ‘bank’, ‘eBay’ and ‘PayPal’ within the domain names. Most of these are used as phishing sites.

According to Spamhaus Yahoo is playing host to thousands of phishing sites and doesn’t have sufficiently well-trained staff to address the problem of online fraud. Yahoo said it would follow up on Cox’s claims.

Ed Gibson, Microsoft UK’s newly appointed chief security advisor, praised Spamhaus for its work and told the audience, “We don’t do a good job of responding to abuse. Spamhaus is excellent at highlighting areas of deficiency.”

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