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Earthlink Selects Digital Envoy for Added Protection Against Phishing Attacks

Anti-Phishing Solution Boosts the Power of ScamBlocker Technology

Atlanta (Aug. 2, 2005) Digital Envoy, the leading provider of transparent, risk-based authentication solutions, today announced that EarthLink (NASDAQ: ELNK), the nations next generation Internet service provider, has selected Digital Envoys E-Scam anti-phishing solution to provide additional protection against phishing attacks for ScamBlocker.
E-Scam is a consumer-focused anti-phishing tool that financial service organizations, ISPs and other large enterprises use to protect their customers in real time. E-Scam utilizes Digital Envoys patented IP Intelligence technology - which uncovers information about online users such as location, domain name, and connection speed, based solely on IP addresses and a rules-based engine to make real-time decisions about the risk associated with a given e-mail, such as the true location of the mail server and the validity of embedded URLs.

Bad Credit Credit Creditres E-Scam will allow EarthLink customers to make more informed decisions about the risk associated with sites to which they are navigating by providing a real-time risk score and detailed geographical information about the website. ScamBlocker is the ISPs protection feature that warns users about accessing known or suspected fraudulent URLs that mimic legitimate Web sites and are intent on stealing personal information.

- Cloudmark Inc., grade messaging security, today announced the results of a survey conducted on its behalf by YouGov, which revealed that public confidence in consumer brands is dramatically affected by phishing attacks, with 42% of people surveyed feeling that their trust in a brand would be greatly reduced if they received a phishing email claiming to be from that company. The survey also showed that the majority of consumers feel that the responsibility for protection against phishing attacks lies with themselves, their service provider and the service provider that transported the phishing emails.

Bad Consolidation Credit Debt EarthLink is committed to providing people with the best anti-phishing protection solution available while they enjoy the Internet, said Matt Cobb, vice president of core applications at EarthLink. Digital Envoys E-Scam product further enhances ScamBlockers ability to quickly analyze fraudulent phisher sites and alert consumers before they make a mistake of accessing fraudulent Web sites.

So phishers are doing more targeted attacks against smaller targets in order to find users who still could be fooled to respond to a phishing email. This has resulted, for example, in a series of attacks against the German banks, with increased activity against organizations like Deutsche Bank and Postbank. Here' Postbank phishing.

Bad Company Credit Repair Unlike other phishing services available today, which provide information to decrease the time of a phishing attack and are more reactive in nature, E-Scam is a solution offering real-time protection from phishing without relying on blacklists or other after-the-fact data sources, said Rob Friedman, executive vice president of corporate development for Digital Envoy. E-Scam does what a phishing solution should: it provides consumers with the tools and information necessary to authenticate Web sites or e-mails in real time, eliminating the need for end users to have any interaction with malicious Web sites.

Phishing, or theft of identity for fraudulent purposes, is now no longer just a threat to banks and home users and has extended its scope to the business environment. (IPS) Protection against unknown attacks through intrusion prevention systems (IPS) Panda GateDefender Integra is an integrated security solution combining antimalware solutions (antivirus, spam, content filtering, etc.), firewall, VPN and IPS in a software and hardware platform aimed at offering complete perimeter protection. The module that this white paper deals with is the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS).

Bad Card Credit Credit In addition to its E-Scam anti-phishing solution, Digital Envoy offers financial service organizations a transparent, risk-based authentication solution that acts as the first line of defense against online fraud by taking a multi-layered approach to fraud prevention and helping financial services organizations to authenticate Internet users in real-time. Already in deployment by some of the worlds largest banks, Fraud Analyst is emerging as a cost-effective and easy-to-deploy front-line solution for online fraud prevention.

mails with links to fraudulent Web sites that imitate the look and feel of legitimate business sites. These phishing attacks lure recipients into divulging personal information such as credit card numbers, account usernames and passwords, social security numbers and more. Phishing Working Group, phishers are able to convince up to 5% known banks, online retailers and credit card companies.

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Cloudmark offers complete inbound and outbound defense against email borne spam, phishing, and virus attacks. There is no need to purchase, integrate, run, or manage separate solutions for each threat type. Cloudmark's product suite protects the service provider' from the edge of the network to mail stores and subscribers' desktops. Furthermore, added services that improve the user experience and give service providers added insight into their subscriber base.

Bad Credit Loan Mortgage Digital Envoy's patented NetAcuity is the leading IP Intelligence solution and is used across a number of industry verticals by some of the world's largest networks, Web sites and search engines for ad targeting, Web analytics and local search optimization. As the industry leader in IP Intelligence, Digital Envoy is also leveraging its position to deliver online identity verification solutions that prevent fraud in real time. The company's Fraud Analyst and E-Scam products serve as a first line of defense against online identity fraud by providing the newest advances in transparent, multi-factor authentication. Digital Envoy's technology non-invasively removes the anonymity barriers unique to the Internet and helps leading financial services institutions, Internet Service Providers and other large enterprises with vested Internet interests protect their brand reputations while increasing consumer confidence in the online channel. For more information, visit www.digitalenvoy.net

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