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Home > News > NTT Comware "PHISHCUT", the first Anti-Phishing Solution for Financial Institutions
-- Protect Customers' Critical Information from Phishing Scams --
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NTT Comware "PHISHCUT", the first Anti-Phishing Solution for Financial Institutions
-- Protect Customers' Critical Information from Phishing Scams --
NTT Comware Corporation (below, NTT Comware; Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Yuhji Imai)
provides "PHISHCUT", an anti-phishing solution which utilizes digital watermarking technology (*1)
for Shizuoka Bank, Limited (below, Shizuoka Bank; Head office: Shizuoka; President: Katsunori
Nakanishi), which will launch the service of this solution on its website today. It protects
clients' personal information from phishing scams by identifying whether the site is genuine and
displaying warnings if it is found suspected.
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[Background]
Phishing scams are acts of fraud committed by criminals who assume the identity of established financial
institutions such as banks, and then contact victims through e-mail instructing them to access counterfeit
websites to enter personal information including their credit card numbers and PINs. This type of
fraud is on the rise, particularly in the United States, and it currently is concerned that it will
increase also in Japan. Shizuoka bank believes that one of the critical issues is to allow customers
to use its website safely. In addition, Financial Service Agency encourages the financial institutions
to take countermeasures against phishing. Shizuoka Bank, therefore, has been considering the
measures to prevent phishing scams.
[Outline of PHISHCUT]
PHISHCUT is the service which embeds digital watermarks into the websites used by financial institutions
as well as internet banking and shopping websites and authenticates the websites using the specialized
software that works with the authentication system. It also detects phishing sites and prevents critical
information such as login IDs and passwords from being sent to those sites.
Since the authentication system and the website from which the specialized software is downloaded
are prepared by NTT Comware via an ASP, it can be adopted in a short time without initial costs.
Users can make use of the service only by installing the software as the authentication is performed
automatically by the specialized software.
(*1) Digital watermarking technology is used to embed data that cannot be perceived by the human
senses into digital content such as imagery, animation and audio data.
*PHISHCUT is the trademark of NTT Comware Corporation.
*NTT Comware Corporationfs patent is pending for PHISHCUT services.
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