SiteWatcher — An Efficient and Effective Phishing Detection Solution

Summary

SiteWatcher is an effective and efficient service for both enterprise users and end-users to timely and proactively detect phishing. It can automatically, accurately, and immediately verify if a given URL points to a phishing webpage and locate the legitimate webpage (its phishing target) it is attacking. We also develop plug-ins and APIs for various web applications (including web browsers, search engines, email readers/servers, online shopping websites, and online advertisement management websites, etc.) to automatically connect with this service. End-users can also submit suspicious URLs to our online helpdesk to check detection results.

Technology Benefits

•Phishing evaluation based on visual similarity between webpages
•Instant alarm raised with phishing attack detection
•Online upgrading of local phishing databases
•End user phishing reporting
•Detection of suspicious domain names
•Automatic phishing domain name assembling
•Automatic ranking and reporting of detected domain names through web page visual similarity tests
•User-friendly interface – ease of configuration and use
•Regular scanning supported (by day, by week or by month)

Technology Application

•As a client-side anti-phishing application akin to anti-virus utilities
•Email service providers can use it as a value-added service to monitor incoming and outgoing emails
•Popular phishing targets such as online banks and financial companies can enhance their website security and can install the software tool in their email servers to monitor bounced-back emails
•As an add-on of web browsers (Firefox, IE, etc.) or anti-phishing applications (SiteWatcher system, etc.)
•Embedded into web browsers as a built-in feature
•Security professionals can use it to protect one or more domain names from phishing attacks

Country/Region

Hong Kong

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