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<p class="MsoNormal">I have updated the cron script for phishing bad/safe sites to v0.3.1. It is available here:
<a href="https://phishing.mailscanner.info">https://phishing.mailscanner.info</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The phishing update server has been updated to use https, but will not force that connection and will now accept http.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Several previous automatic bad site scrubs were removed for the google domain and several subdomains. This means you will need to add them to the phishing safe sites custom file to retain links to google domains.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Uncompressed versions of the bad/safe sites files are no longer available. If you have an old script trying to download those files, it will fail. You will need to use the newer update script or modify any custom scripts to download the
compressed versions and then extract them for use. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The phishing bad sites is compiled from Phishtank data. It essentially pulls the domains from the phishing links and puts them into a flat file for use in MailScanner.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Future plan:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I am looking into creating a mechanism to populate a SQLite database with phishing links instead of just domains. I am creating this for use in Mailborder, but will make the database available
for MailScanner. In order to be used in MailScanner someone would have to write the code to use it. (I have enough to do.) Once I create a base structure of what the database would look like, I will send out an update here with a link to the SQLite database.
Not sure how this would impact scanning speed at this time. It would of course depend on how big that database gets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The reason why I am looking into this …
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I contacted Openphish about licensing cost to get their database. They want $10k per server per year for the “light” version. That is just nuts.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">How you can help …
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I need source data to compile this database. I can get some from Phishtank and a very small amount from Openphish free sources. I haven’t put a whole lot of cycles into this, but if you have
any suggestions, please email me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">-- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Jerry Benton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.mailborder.com"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.mailborder.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">+1 843-800-8605<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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