FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No More Phish to Fry’ Says Protecteer, Announcing a New Tool to
Combat Zero-Hour Phishing Attempts.
Windham, NH -- Dec 2, 2004 -- Protecteer
LLC, a leading provider of desktop identity theft prevention tools,
today announced its next generation of SignupShieldTM, now with a patent
pending Anti-Phishing technology.
"With Signupshield 3.0 we have redesigned the suite to include the
most advanced ‘zero-hour’ anti phishing tool to date. The tool, named
‘PhishShieldTM’, alerts users before they are about to submit
sensitive information
over the net to suspicious web sites” said Ami
Grynberg, Protecteer
’s CEO.
While some vendors have chosen to fight scams like Phishing by
providing after the fact alerts, SignupShield 3.0 preempts Phishing attacks by
alerting users before sensitive information
is about to be transmitted to a rogue web site.
Signupshield looks behind the scenes of every form a user is about
to submit over the internet and is not fooled by any ‘make belief’ cloning of
real web sites, a technique used by phishing scams. Since it looks at the
actual form a user is submitting, signupshield does not really care how users
get to a cloned site – via email, search result or spyware.
If SignupShield determines, that indeed a user is about to submit
sensitive information
and if that information
will be sent to a ‘suspicious’ web site, SignupShield intervenes
and alerts the user allowing he or she to abort such transfer of sensitive data
before it occurs.
SignupShield’s technology is not based on ‘black lists’ which are
available only after the fact. (‘Zero-hour’ tool means that it is always ready).
Nor does SignupShield analyze each site that a user visits.
More detailed information
with an example of a real phishing attack and a corresponding counter
alert by SignupShield are available at http://www.protecteer.com/asp/phish1.asp
Part of SignupShield’s secret is the capability of PhishShield to
draw on SignupShield’s other tools – an integrated Password Manager and a Smart
Form Filler built into the product suite. "This is a clear case where the total
is more than the sum of its parts”, added Ami
Grynberg.
SignupShield is available for $29.95 per user.
Protecteer
is a New Hampshire
company, dedicated to creating advanced technologies for managing
and protecting online submission of sensitive information
.
NOTE: SignupShield and PhishShield
are a trademarks of Protecteer
, LLC.
CONTACT:
Ami Grynberg
Phone: 603-589-6539
web: http://www.protecteer.com
email: news3(at)protecteer.com
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