Carnegie Mellon University is fast becoming the national leader in a very specific video-gaming niche: the computer-security instructional genre.
Early this year the university released a game that asked children to serve as “cyber cadets” protecting the Web. Now the institution has followed that title up with a game that helps teach Web users to sniff out “phishing” scams.
Anti-Phishing Phil is pretty simple, but it’s cute and addictive: Players maneuver a little fish through an ocean setting, eating worms that name banks’ real Web addresses and rejecting worms that recite false URL’s. The game is actually a bit tougher than one might think, and Carnegie Mellon researchers say there’s evidence that Anti-Phishing Phil works better than bland anti-phishing tutorials. —Brock Read
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