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APWG Promotes Free FTC Anti-ID Theft Resources for Consumer Education; Answers Need for Comprehensive Prescriptions To Neutralize ID Theft
LOS ALTOS, Calif. & CAMBRIDGE, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- June 5, 2006 -- The Anti-Phishing Working Group has joined the Federal Trade Commission's Avoid ID Theft campaign, distributing the FTC's new 'AvoID Theft: Deter, Detect, Defend' tutorials from the APWG's popular website to advance consumer education on the complex issue of identity theft through APWG member institutions and direct-to-consumer communication.
The FTC initially launched its campaign on May 10 at a White House press conference, unveiling its ID Theft Consumer education, including materials for counter-ID theft community educational presentations, an instructional guide for giving prescriptive lectures on identity theft, a complete PowerPoint presentation, a ready-to-print informational folder and a 10 minute video on identity theft with advice from the FTC.
The APWG will be directing visitors to its popular website to the FTC's web pages from its index page at http://www.antiphishing.org/index.html this year and through its permanent link archive for self-help literature on its Resources page at http://www.antiphishing.org/resources.html. The objective is to provide consumers and community groups with ready access to educational materials and to expand the APWG's library of materials that its member companies and research partners can provide for their customers.
The APWG believes that institutions large and small, many of them its industry members, were starved for just this kind of comprehensive educational and advisory program. "We get a constant flow of requests for phishing and ID theft info from all manner of community groups, businesses, law enforcement agencies. Now we can point those with an interest in countering ID theft toward the FTC resources with confidence that all the relevant issues are being covered with the most useful and comprehensive prescriptions," said APWG Chairman David Jevans.
About The Anti-Phishing Working Group
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) was formed in 2003 to fight identity theft and email spoofing on the Internet. The group is one of the security industry's pre-eminent consortia, with more than 2,400 members from more than 1400 financial services firms, ISPs, security vendors, law enforcement agencies, law courts, regulatory agencies and consumer groups from around the world. The APWG website is www.antiphishing.org APWG's corporate sponsors include: 8e6 Technologies, Able NV, ActivCard (ACTI), Adobe (ADBE), AhnLab, Aladdin Knowledge Systems (ALDN), Anakam, Anonymizer, Brandimensions, Clear Search, Cloudmark, Comodo, Corillian (CORI), Cydelity, Cyveillance, DigitalEnvoy, DigitalResolve, Earthlink (ELNK), eBay/PayPal (EBAY), Entrust (ENTU), Experian, eEye Digital Security, F-Secure, GeoTrust, GoDaddy, ING Bank, Iconix, InternetIndentity, Internet Security Systems, IOvation, IS3, Kaspersky Labs, LightSpeed Systems, MailFrontier, MarkMonitor, McAfee (MFE), MasterCard, MessageLevel, Microsoft (MSFT), Mirapoint, MX Logic, NameProtect, Netcraft, Panda Software, Phoenix Technologies, Inc. (PTEC), Quova, RSA Security (RSAS), SAIC, SecureBrain, Sigaba, SOPHOS, SquareTrade, Symantec (SYMC), The 41st Parameter, Trek Blue, Trend Micro (TMIC), Tricerion, TriCipher, Tumbleweed Communications (TMWD), SurfControl (SRF.L), Vasco (VDSI), VeriSign (VRSN), Visa, Websense, Inc. (WBSN), WholeSecurity and ZixCorp.
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