CyberCash Partners with Leading Internet Technology Companies to Bundle Electronic Payment Software; Seven Browser and Software Vendors to Integrate CyberCash Services.

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 1995--CyberCash, Inc. today announced partnerships with seven networking software vendors that will allow the company's Internet Payment Services to integrate with a wide variety of Internet software products. The partnerships include FTP Software, Inc., Frontier Technologies Corp., InterCon Systems Corp., NETCOM On-Line Communication Services, Inc., Network Computing Devices, Inc., Open-Market, Inc., and Quarterdeck Corporation, and will enable CyberCash's secure on-line payment system to be browser and user-interface independent. CyberCash is the leading vendor developing secure, end-to-end Internet payment systems for use with credit and debit cards, as well as cash transactions.

"Each of CyberCash's partners offers a high level of value for the Internet market today and will work with us to provide the added functionality of electronic payment services that users will rely on," said Bill Melton, president and chief executive officer for CyberCash. "Electronic payment users demand a high level of interoperability, security and convenience. CyberCash is committed to meeting these needs through its extraordinary technology, service and industry partnerships."

Each of the seven technology partners has agreed to integrate their technology with CyberCash so that the company's electronic payment services can be easily accessed through each partner's products. A user with a browser supplied by any of these vendors will now be able to make on-line payment transactions via CyberCash directly from their browser without having to download CyberCash software separately. CyberCash's client software, which has been beta tested by several thousand end users for the past 60 days will be integrated with each partner's products and rolled out at various times throughout 1995. Today, a user with any Internet browser can download the CyberCash client software from CyberCash's WWW home page. The company's new partners will begin bundling CyberCash software with their browsers as early as next month.

CyberCash Partners Each of CyberCash's partners brings valuable tools to the Internet community.

-- FTP Software's Explore OnNet provides Internet users with a suite of Windows applications including electronic mail (with MIME and MAPI support), Mosaic, telnet, FTP and Gopher, along with a VxD-based SLIP/PPP kernel.

-- Frontier Technologies' award-winning Internet browser SuperHighway Access was the first Internet software product to support multiple sessions and multiple protocols, and it also allows users to organize Internet information by topic, rather than the underlying protocol.

-- InterCon Systems develops and markets a wide range of standards-based connectivity and Internet access software products for Macintosh and Windows personal computer systems.

-- NETCOM provides high-quality, low-cost, nationwide Internet access over its own high-speed network to more than 115,000 users and provides the popular NetCruiser browser.

-- NCD provides desktop information access solutions, such as Mariner, PC X server software and Z-Mail, for network computing environments.

-- Open Market, a software and service provider for conducting electronic commerce over the Internet and WWW, offers a complete electronic infrastructure for establishing and managing a business on the Internet.

-- Quarterdeck's Internet Suite offers individuals, small businesses and large organizations easy-to-use software products that deliver the key capabilities required to access, manage and publish information via the Internet and WWW.

"Some of the industry's leading Internet technology providers have chosen to work with CyberCash because we all share the same vision of electronic commerce," said Melton. "CyberCash will continue to partner with financial institutions and technology vendors in order to make secure electronic payments are accessible to all Internet users. We welcome new industry standards for on-line credit card processing procedures, such as those being defined by the VISA and Mastercard associations, and plan to incorporate them into the CyberCash environment as soon as possible."

CyberCash

CyberCash, Inc. of Reston, Virginia, was founded in August 1994 to partner with financial institutions and providers of goods and services to deliver secure Internet payment systems. The CyberCash approach is based on establishing a trusted link between the seemingly unpredictable world of cyberspace and the traditional banking world. CyberCash serves as a conduit through which payments can be transported easily, safely and instantaneously between buyers, sellers and their banks. The CyberCash system operates on top of any general security system such as SSL or Secure HTTP.

The founders of CyberCash are Bill Melton, founder of VeriFone, a company that achieved enormous success by providing a system for processing credit card transactions at the point-of-sale, and Dan Lynch, founder and chairman of the hugely popular NetWorld + INTEROP networking show and exhibition. Melton, Lynch and other CyberCash principals bring together unparalleled experience in credit card and debit card automation, Internet telecommunications and security.

In April, CyberCash was chosen by Interactive Age as one of the 100 Best Business Web Sites. Newsweek also recently named Dan Lynch one of the Top 50 People to Watch in Cyberspace.

For further information about CyberCash, access its WWW server at http://www:cybercash.com or call 800/9CYBER1. -0-

Note to Editors: CyberCash is a registered trademark of CyberCash Inc. Other products and names may be trademarks of their respective companies.

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