NTT Comware Launches PHISHCUT Digital Watermarking Anti-Phishing Solution.Tokyo, Japan, Apr 3, 2006 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) ) - NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform Comware will launch sales of PHISHCUT, an anti-phishing solution which utilizes digital watermarking Digital watermarking is a technique which allows an individual to add hidden copyright notices or other verification messages to digital audio, video, or image signals and documents. technology. The solution is designed to protect personal information from phishing scams which utilize counterfeit websites to solicit personal information. PHISHCUT embeds digital watermarks A pattern of bits embedded into a file used to identify the source of illegal copies. For example, if a digital watermark is placed into a master copy of an audio CD or a DVD movie, then all copies of that disc are uniquely identified. into websites used by financial institutions as well as internet banking and shopping sites. PHISHNET also determines and informs the users who access these sites whether the website to which they are attempting to send personal information including their User ID and credit card number is real or counterfeit. First, NTT Comware's Authentication System The combination of authentication server and authenticator, which may be separate devices or both reside in the same unit such as an access point or network access server. The authentication server contains a database of user names, passwords and policies, and the authenticator physically compares the data embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. within the digital watermark with the data contained within the website. If the website is an official website with a digital watermark, PHISHCUT will allow the user's personal information to be sent. However, if PHISHCUT determines the website to be potentially counterfeit, PHISHCUT will display a warning on the user's browser and will prevent the user's personal information from being sent to the website. The PHISHCUT system utilizes three components: the digital watermarks embedded in websites, specialized software essential for browser terminals, and the Authentication System. The digital watermark obtained from the Authentication System is set on the customer's website, and the bona fide [Latin, In good faith.] Honest; genuine; actual; authentic; acting without the intention of defrauding. A bona fide purchaser is one who purchases property for a valuable consideration that is inducement for entering into a contract and without suspicion of being data for the website is recorded. No special equipment is required, allowing customers to easily implement this solution. In addition, the only preparation required from the users accessing the website is the downloading of the specialized software from the Authentication System. In addition, if the important data is recorded onto the downloaded software beforehand, PHISHCUT will display a warning which gives users the option to send or not send their personal information to websites the user has accessed which contain no digital watermark. With the objective of protecting the personal information of internet users from the phishing scams expected to increase in Japan, NTT Comware will expand its sales of this solution to financial institutions beginning with banks and has set a sales target of 600,000,000 Yen for the three-year period beginning from April 2006. The authentication server A device used in network access control. It stores the usernames and passwords that identify the clients logging in, or it may hold the algorithms for token access (see authentication token). and the website from which the specialized software is downloaded are prepared by NTT Comware, and are provided to users through an ASP. The service usage fees for the PHISHCUT Solution can begin from 500,000 Yen a month in the case where PHISHCUT is adopted by one bank and the Authentication System is accessed 250,000 times or less during a one-month period. NTT Comware plans to launch sales of PHISHCUT in mid-April. Copyright [c] 2006 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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