Proceedings of the Anti-Phishing Working Groups 2nd Annual eCrime Researchers Summit 2007, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, October 4-5, 2007

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) formed in Fall 2003, and organized members-only meetings to advance their members' understanding of the emerging electronic crime plexus that had formed on the Internet and was menacing society's shared ecommerce infrastructure. In 2006, responding to the submission of overwhelming numbers of high-quality papers from academic research institutions, APWG Secretary General Peter Cassidy founded the eCrime Researchers Summit (eCRS) to provide an appropriate venue for this vital work. APWG organized the inaugural eCRS in Orlando with Florida State University, the National Center for Forensic Science at UCF and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, at which new research results in online fraud and countermeasures were presented by leading security researchers. To build on the success of the 2006 academic meeting, the APWG soon scheduled a second electronic crime research conference with faculty from Indiana University and Carnegie Mellon University. The eCRS 2007 was held October 4--5, 2007, on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University. The program consisted of a balance of academic research papers; three panels with moderators and panelists from industry and research institutions discussing the most recent developments in the area; and a keynote talk on online gaming and security by Gary McGraw, a noted specialist in applied security. The program committee selected the paper "Examining the Impact of Website Take-down on Phishing" by Tyler Moore and Richard Clayton to receive the best paper award.