http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/6323 By Michael Santo Editor-in-Chief RealTechNews December 27th, 2008 CastleCops, the volunteer-run website and organization famous for fighting phishing, highly recommended by many, has gone offline. The site had reached its five-year anniversary in 2007. CastleCops had made many enemies among the malware community, who used DDOS attacks on the site as well as PayPal donations from compromised accounts to ruin the site’s PayPal reputation. In June, founder Paul Laudanski announced in June that he had been hired by Microsoft to work on phishing and spam investigations, and said that he hoped to find someone else to run the site. On their site, CastleCops said: You have arrived at the CastleCops website, which is currently offline. It has been our pleasure to investigate online crime and volunteer with our virtual family to assist with your computer needs and make the Internet a safer place. Unfortunately, all things come to an end. Keep up the good fight folks, for the spirit of this community lies within each of us. We are empowered to improve the safety and security of the Internet in our own way. Let us feel blessed for the impact we made and the relationships created. [...] _______________________________________________ Please help InfoSecNews.org with a donation! http://www.infosecnews.org/donate.htmlReceived on Mon Dec 29 2008 - 00:35:52 PST
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