What specific types of data and e-crime reports does the tool track?
The e-crime reporting tool was designed to allow e-crime fighters, investigators, corporations, and researchers to supply data from their IDS, IPS, or email filtering systems to the APWG and to each other. We don’t think that non-technical consumers will find the tool useful since it asks for very specific data that a normal Internet user may not recognize. Or uninformed users may provide inaccurate data. The tool originally collected phishing event data but was quickly expanded to include other types of Internet fraud events since they are very similar. As we become more confident in the fraud aspects of the tool, we are looking to add more types of e-crime to the tool and also looking at making a ‘consumer-friendly’ version so that we can collect data from more endpoints. Some other e-crimes, like cyber-bullying for example, involve the same technical things as phishing–an email or SMS message–and should be easy to include in the reporting tool. One of our challenges in expanding the
