Microsoft Partners with Digital Resolve to Fight Phishing

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Microsoft signs a formal data provider agreement with Digital Resolve to provide data feeds from Digital Resolve's Trusted Server Technology. These new feeds will help provide real-time, front-line protection for consumers against phishing attacks. Introduced in July 2005, Microsoft Phishing Filter helps protect millions of customers from phishing scams when they are browsing the Internet and is available through the new Microsoft Windows Live Toolbar, which launched in final release last month, in Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, and in Microsoft Windows Vista, both currently in beta testing.

Microsoft's Phishing Filter URL reputation service is part of the innovative Phishing Filter feature that will be available to millions of users of Windows Internet Explorer 7 and the Windows Live Toolbar. The new data feed supplied to Microsoft as part of this new agreement comes from Digital Resolve's Trusted Server Technology which provides consumers with real-time, positive assurance that they are at a valid website. The technology utilizes patented data mining capabilities, which were developed in 1999 as the core building component of the company's patented IP Intelligence technology, to crawl the Internet 24 x 7, verifying the authenticity of financial services and e-commerce websites. This information is constantly monitored and updated within Trusted Server, which can be fed to web browsers and other desktop applications to safeguard consumers against rogue websites and protect the brand of legitimate online businesses.

Digital Resolve's approach to website authentication effectively eliminates active consumer involvement in authenticating websites such as selecting images and phrases they must remember whenever visiting a website. This ever-evolving list of trusted sites, which is constantly monitored and updated to accommodate changes to websites, simplifies the authentication process for both consumers and the websites that serve them, and is designed to protect consumers against phishing, pharming, Man-in-the-Middle and other attacks that direct web surfers to socially engineered websites designed to steal personal information that is used by online criminals to commit identity fraud.

Trusted Server Technology is part of Digital Resolve's online fraud and identity theft prevention solutions, which are designed to protect consumers at every online touchpoint. Other offerings from Digital Resolve include:
- Fraud Analyst
* A proven risk-based authentication solution that detects and acts upon suspicious activity in real time.
* Protects online banking customers throughout the customer lifecycle from new account opening and enrollment to login authentication to high-risk transaction analysis.
* Currently deployed protecting millions of accounts and applications.
- E-Scam
* A phishing prevention solution that stops phishing emails before they reach the consumer desktop.
* Currently in deployment with Earthlink, the nation's second largest ISP.

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