Yahoo! has been accused of hosting thousands of phishing sites by U.K.-based spam-blocking non-profit Spamhaus.
The news comes amid an effort by giant e-mail box providers, such as Yahoo!, Microsoft, and AOL, to prod marketers and other e-mail senders to authenticate their outbound messages in order to fight, among other things, phishing.
According to the chief information officer of Spamhaus, Richard Cox, Yahoo! has just under 5,000 domains hosted and registered with the words ‘bank’, ‘eBay’ and ‘PayPal’ within the domain name.
“They are hosted on Yahoo! I just took three hot words, but there are dozens of others including misspellings. They are mostly phishing websites, which shows that the situation is out of control,” Cox told an audience at the
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