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Kount Receives US Patent for Proxy Piercing Technology
BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Kount Inc. (http://www.kount.com/), a
leading provider of fraud control for ecommerce merchants, today announced
that the company has received a US patent for its proxy piercing technology.
This is the second Kount technology to receive a patent. The first, announced
last week, is the company's device fingerprinting technology.
Kount's proxy piercing technology determines the accurate geolocation of
computers being used to initiate online transactions, providing methods for
determining the true physical location of the customer's computer, even if an
anonymous proxy is being used.
Patent number 7,330,871 "Online Machine Data Collection and Archiving
Process," describes a method for identifying a customer computer involved in
an online transaction via a merchant website.
This is important to those battling online crime because crooks often
attempt to spoof their actual location by using anonymous proxies to forward
their transactions. In this way, a criminal located inBelarus could make it
appear to an unsuspecting merchant that he is actually located inChicago.
"Kount has the ability to see though anonymous proxies and detect the true
location of the computer submitting an online transaction," said Steven W.
Rouse, Kount's Chief Operating Officer. "This is vital to ecommerce merchants
in the fight against online crime, and is one of many technologies we have
developed over the years to protect our customers from fraud."
About Kount
Kount(R) is the most advanced fraud-fighting technology available today.
Developed by Keynetics (http://www.keynetics.com/) with online and catalog
merchant needs in mind, Kount defends against both traditional and emerging
fraud threats. Kount defends against botnets and other organized crime using
a formidable array of tools including Dynamic Scoring(TM), device
fingerprinting, proxy-piercing geolocation techniques, and real-time data
streams from websites all across the globe.
Kount provides merchants with maximum risk management control and
flexibility, while automating costly manual review processes to improve the
bottom line. For more information about Kount, please visit
http://www.kount.com.
Contact:
Joanne Taylor
208-472-5662
jtaylor@drakecooper.com
SOURCE Kount Inc.
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