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Cyber gangs don’t stand a chance with Pittsburgh’s Wombat, hiring

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Pittsburgh startup Wombat Security Technologies wants Internet users everywhere to recognize the dangers that lurk online.

Founded in 2008, the company has commercialized software developed at Carnegie Mellon Universityas part of the largest anti-phishing research project in the country.What began as the cute cartoon game, Anti-Phishing Phil, is now apowerful tool used by banks, governments and defense and healthcareinstitutions to train employees to foil phishing scams, fraudulentemails sent by con artists and cyber gangs to gain access to securedinformation.

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