For all GFY members - Pennywize has three big announcements for November:
PENNYWIZE ONLINE
On the November 1st 2002, Pennywize will release version 3.0 of Pennywize Online, the market leading software for the prevention of password traders and brute force attacks. This release has been a year in the making and introduces a number of new features which significantly improves the effectiveness of Pennywize.
These include:
o New innovative dictionary attack blocking algorithm
o Much quicker stats parsing and account blocking
o No longer required to call the script as a CGI to block accounts
o More secure (your username and password aren't hardcoded within the script anymore)
o Large scale deployment ready (for hosting companies and ISP's)
o Enhanced reporting
o Easier to install
Pennywize also :
1. Allows you to put limits on the number of bytes per day a user can download
2. Records the number of minutes each user has been online for
3. Allows you to block or unblock any account from the admin section on our website
One of the most innovative features in the new version is our new "brute force" (or dictionary attack) blocking algorithm. A great portion of our research for this version has been into these intensive kinds of attacks and we have finally discovered a unique way to stop them cold, something which no other product on the market can match.
Hosting companies and large scale clients will also benefit from this new version, because one instance of Pennywize can be run per server to protect ALL of the sites on that server (as opposed to having one instance per site).
We encourage all members and current users to upgrade to the new version to receive the benefit of the new features. Pennywize is located at
http://www.pennywize.com
You can now try Pennywize for FREE on your site - No creditcard required
PENNYWIZE PAYMENTS
* New Product *
If you are a webmaster who has contemplated processing through your own merchant account, then you might be interested in our new service called "Pennywize Payments". Once you have a merchant account, your biggest cost will be to develop a software system to accept credit card information, communicate with your banks gateway and then rebill that subscription periodically. Pennywize payments is a complete merchant processing solution designed by the team at Pennywize which facilitates all this and more!
We have invested hundreds of hours to build a solid solution which simply 'plugs in' to the wide array of merchant banks out there, saving you the time and hassle of having to program an interface to every bank you want to process through, and write software to handle the rebilling of your customers.
Once you have established a merchant account, simply accept a transaction through your website, and pass it onto Pennywize Payments (through a secure SSL call) and let the gateway do all the low-level talking to your back-end merchant bank or facility on your behalf. The gateway will also rebill the transaction according to any number of pre-defined schedules you can create, and can also optionally pre-scrub the transaction through a growing number of 3rd party services. Pennywize can also bill at any currency your merchant account provides for.
Pennywize Payments also provides comprehensive reporting on all aspects of your transactions, from approves to declines, success rates, failure reasons etc..
This service is in beta testing now with a few clients, and will be available in the coming weeks at
http://www.pennywizepayments.com
PENNYWIZE BANNER AFFILIATE SYSTEM
* New Product *
Over the last few years, the team behind Pennywize have been responsible for building, maintaining and operating some of the largest banner affiliate programs on the internet today. This exclusive technology was previously bound to a select number of clients, however we are now able to license this extremely powerful and flexible affiliate system to any webmaster on a monthly lease basis. Prices start at $USD 3000/mth.
For more information, please email
[email protected]
Regards
The Pennywize Team