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Back in March, we published Mapping the Mal Web an in-depth look at country-level domains. Tokelau (.tk) was the riskiest overall, with 10.1% of all tested domains rated red or yellow. Turns out that the people in a position to do something about that score took notice.

Dot TK, the private company that administers the domain on behalf of Tokelau (a territory of New Zealand), says it will install a system to filter malicious content. According to the CEO of Dot TK, the McAfee report spurred the new process: “We saw a decline of approximately 10% of new registrations in the countries where this report hit the press.”

According to press reports, Tokelau earns a double digit percentage of its GDP from revenue generated by the .tk domain.

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Update:

Thanks to the hundreds of thousands of people who took our phishing quiz. We're now examining the results. Look for more interactive features from McAfee in the future!

Can you spot the phish?

How well can you spot phishing sites? Many of the readers of this blog are pretty savvy when it comes to security issues. So, we’ve created a deceptively easy but devilishly hard 10-question phishing quiz. Are you up to the challenge?

Our Phishing Quiz follows on the heels of our Spyware and Spam quizzes. More than 120,000 test results later, we can safely say that we have a lot of work left to do. The average score for the spyware quiz was 59%. For the spam quiz, 55%.

MailFrontier published the first phishing quiz back in 2004. Given the persistence and mutability of this plague, we thought it was time to revisit the issue. Whether it's rockphishing, or Flash phish or MySpace scams, phishing continues to evolve and ensnare both the ignorant – the people who don’t know better – and the arrogant – the people who should know better. And victims continue to lose real money. According to Gartner, per victim losses soared from $257 in 2004 to $1,244 in 2006. That’s nearly a 5-fold increase.

We encourage folks to share the quiz with friends and family. Use your expertise and the opportunity presented by the quiz to share some of our hard earned collective knowledge about phishing. Who knows? We might even save a few people from getting hooked.

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