TrueActive Releases TrueActive CardAlert Demonstrating Real-Time Credit Card Fraud Detection.RICHLAND, Wash. -- TrueActive today released TrueActive CardAlert (TACA TACA Talk About Curing Autism TACA Tennessee Association of Craft Artists TACA Turkish American Cultural Alliance TACA Texas Aggregates and Concrete Association (Austin, Texas) TACA Transportes Aereos Centro-Américanos ), a technology preview application demonstrating real-time credit card number detection on a PC to instantly identify potential credit card or identity theft fraud. TACA demonstrates a proficiency at real-time monitoring and notification previously thought impossible. Using a validation algorithm and operating completely in the open with user knowledge, TACA scans keyboard activity and the Windows clipboard to detect numeric combinations that can be validated as a credit card number. When a match is found, TACA saves only the last four digits to an encrypted file and alerts the user. To address privacy concerns, the credit card number is only evaluated and never stored in full by the application. Only the last four digits are retained for detection and reporting. The application will be available for free from TrueActive and will cease working on December 31, 2005. As Credit Card security breaches continue making news and the identity theft crisis continues unabated, a credible proactive solution for protecting businesses has become necessary. TrueActive CardAlert demonstrates the real-time monitoring, classification, and notification of credit card data required to discover potential security breaches entered on a keyboard or placed in the Windows clipboard. TACA runs as a background process with a startup splash screen An introductory screen displayed by an application after it is loaded and just before it starts. It generally shows the software company's name, logo, copyright and other related information. Either it goes away by itself, or it requires the user to press escape or click the close button. and system tray An area on the right side of the Taskbar on the Windows interface used to display the status of various functions, such as speaker volume and modem transmission. Applications also insert icons on the System Tray to give you a quick entrance into either the application itself or some icon for notification and administration. An "Instant Alert" can optionally be sent via Windows Messaging 1. (messaging) Windows Messaging - Microsoft's Internet electronic mail application, formerly called Microsoft Exchange. 2. (messaging) windows messaging Service to another workstation on the network or displayed on the host computer. The system maintains a log of all credit card entries on the host computer, the last four numbers from the card itself, time and date of the entry as well as the internet location and name of the machine and user at the time of entry. The application also captures the application used at the time of entry, or whether an attempt was made to "cut and paste To move an object from one location to another. When the operation is complete, there is nothing left in the original location. It may refer to relocating files from one folder to another or to relocating selected text or images from one document to another. " the credit card data into another application. A company downloading and installing the application can monitor the use of credit card data with unprecedented accountability. In an age where identity and credit fraud are the fastest growing and most expensive crimes, any company with employees who routinely accept and process credit card transactions will immediately benefit from the information provided by the Card Alert Technology Preview. TACA Activity Reports show: --Date Time - when the Credit Card was entered --User - The user name as reported by Windows --Workstation - Computer name --IP Address - Network IP address --MAC address - from network card --Card Type --Last 4 digits of CC Number (These are the only numbers stored.) --EXE - The application active at the time of capture. CardAlert only uses the selected installation folder for storing data. No data or files are saved in any other location on the users PC. Files created during installation: --TACA.EXE Exe (ĕks), river, c.55 mi (90 km) long, rising in the Exmoor, Somerset, SW England, and flowing S across the Cornwall peninsula, past Exeter to the English Channel at Exmouth. - The monitoring module --KEYBOARD.DLL (1) See data link layer. (2) (Dynamic Link Library) An executable program module in Windows that performs one or more functions at runtime. DLLs are not launched by the user; they are called for by an executable program or by other DLLs. - Support file. Files created after installation: --TACA.DAT (1) (Dynamic Address Translator) A hardware circuit that converts a virtual memory address into a real address. See also DAT file. (2) (Digital Audio Tape) A magnetic tape technology used for backing up data. - All data stored here --TACA.HTM HTM HyperText Markup (file extension) HTM Hand To Mouth HTM harmful-to-minors HTM Held-to-Maturity HTM High Tide Mark HTM Hazlo tú mismo (Spanish: do it yourself) HTM Hierarchical Temporal Memory - Report. TrueActive Card Alert is available now from TrueActive with email registration. System Requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. : 900kb disc space, 6 MB RAM, Windows 2000, NT or XP SP2 For an online media kit visit: http://www.ascendpr.com |
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