AlphaTrade.com Offers Solution to Recent Discovery of Holes in SSL Encryption.

Business Editors

VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 12, 2000

AlphaTrade.com (OTCBB:EBNK) today has completed a package that provides a solution to recently discovered holes in the SSL Encryption algorithm that have sent Electronic Commerce-based companies and brokerages scurrying for cover.

SSL is an encryption overlay system that encrypts personal data flowing across the Internet. To date, the technology has been viewed by the Internet industry as highly secure.

"The problem with the Internet today is companies believe that a sound security policy is comprised of products, not strategies and methodologies. That is where the downfall lies, trust and faith in protocols alone, rather then strategy-based solutions," says Eric Hines, Chairman and CEO of AlphaForce.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of AlphaTrade.com.

AlphaForce.com points to several examples where criminals have the ability to intercept money transactions, exploit user id's, and even passwords. The SSL weakness could cost Internet brokerages million of dollars. This contrasts with previous brokerage attacks where crackers only left digital "graffiti" in their wake. So what does this mean? Criminals are escalating their type of attacks.

The SSL encryption protocol is more susceptible to attacks as it becomes archaic and obsolete. Information gained by such SSL-based attacks prompt criminals to trade stocks using other people's money, even making money with a legitimate brokerage account by using other people's money to manipulate a stock price.

AlphaForce.com has developed a strategy-based solution to this threat, which couples some of the industries top technology firms and their products. These include corporations such as Rainbow Technologies (NASD:RNBO) in the distribution of the iKey(TM) technology, as well as Florida-based. Digital Bond. Digibond, the company's product validates the stock trader via an embedded security chip, allowing only the investor it was assigned to, to trade with that investors account.

AlphaForce.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of AlphaTrade.com provides a vast array of E-Security solutions to the global marketplace, specializing in Virtual Private Networking (VPN), Firewall farms, Intrusion Detection Systems, and managed security solutions. These solutions are designed to allow customers to leverage publicly shared network infrastructures to conduct secure and reliable business transactions. AlphaForce.com offers the industry's first managed security solutions from its state of the art SOC (Security Operations Center), based in the heart of Silicon Valley, where the company provides 24x7x365 network monitoring, maximizing the level of risk mitigation offered to customers.

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