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PhoneGuard Announces New Protection Software for Handsets

Now, users are protected against data theft by hackers and cyber criminals. According to the company, the new solution has been released exclusively on the North American market, and should safeguard cellular phones/PDAs or smart phones against attacks. “Amateur hour is over,” said Anthony Sasso, founder ...

21 November 2009
04:49 GMT

Keep Files Protected on Your Symbian Device

One of the most reliable protection utilities for S60 smartphones, Safe Deposit Box, has been developed by WebGate JSC. While there are lots of solutions that offer similar features, Safe Deposit Box is one of the most user friendly and efficient 3rd party applications. It simply keeps the files you have previously d...

29 June 2009
10:48 GMT

Protective Order Approved in Apple vs. Psystar Case

World of Apple has posted an Order Approving Stipulated Protective Order Subject to Stated Conditions signed by none other than Judge Alsup, reviewing the legal battle between Apple and Psystar. On Tuesday, March 3, 2009, the Judge sua sponte added conditions/restrictions to the request of the parties, outlining seve...

4 March 2009
05:41 GMT

Protective Order Sought in Apple vs. Psystar Case

Apple and Psystar seek to restrict access to certain trade secrets and software code in order to avoid any information leaks as they approach the discovery process that will precede a formal trial. The material in question may consist of documents, software code, interrogatories, deposition testimony, and other infor...

2 March 2009
05:33 GMT

Ripdev Launches Kali Anti-Piracy Service for iPhone Devs

As its name implies, the Kali Anti-Piracy service is aimed at iPhone developers looking to protect their applications from being pirated. Kali Anti-Piracy subscribers have access to a developer login and an SDK. Devs need to submit their app to Ripdev's encryption server, which sends it back wrapped with the pro...

12 February 2009
04:00 GMT

Make Your Files Invisible with Just a Click

Data privacy concerns home and business users alike. However, protecting the files and folders using a password or hiding them in Windows Explorer is far from being a secure measure nowadays. One logical step that needs to be taken in order to guarantee information privacy is to make the files and folders completely ...

15 December 2008
12:21 GMT

New Anti-Virus Protection from Lavasoft

The world of computer protection software is about to expand with one product. Helix is its name and its field of activity is protection against computer viruses. The developer is Lavasoft, the creator of the world's most popular anti-spyware software, Ad-Aware. Anti-Virus Helix comes with a 30-day trial period...

15 December 2008
06:05 GMT

Hiding Islands and Platforms from Tsunamis, Now a Possibility

Scientists have built a device that, if applied to larger scales, would allow ocean waves, even those as big as a tsunami, to travel through a large structure (an offshore platform or even an island) without the waves or the respective structure being altered at all.Invisibility doesn't just refer to light and v...

30 September 2008
04:31 GMT

McAfee Takes Real-Time Protection Into the Cloud

A press release from McAfee Inc. announces a breakthrough in computer security software through their new technology named Artemis. The technology, already implemented in the McAfee Total Protection Service, offers unprecedented real-time protection by contacting an Internet-based service, thus being free from the sh...

11 September 2008
06:29 GMT

Anti-Copy Protection

I said it before and I’ll say it again: no matter how strongly you feel that your computer is protected against any malevolent forces, the security enforced will never be enough. If a firewall and an antivirus/antispyware solution are concerting for the security of your machine, this does not mean that your fil...

29 August 2008
09:16 GMT

Download Here - Kaspersky Internet Security Update

Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 8.0.0.454 Final version has just been released. It is a tool that is presented by the team of developers as an unmatched security solution for home and home office. The Kaspersky product offers protection from viruses, Trojans and worms, scans the Internet traffic, the email and insta...

1 August 2008
08:58 GMT

Some Wasps Leave Their Young's Security to Parasites

It's not often that you see a parent leaving their children in the company of an intruder and hoping they'll be OK, albeit a species of potter wasps known as Allodynerus delphinalis does it anyway. Not only that, but the Ensliniella parasitica, a parasitic mite living in the nest of this particular species ...

7 July 2008
09:38 GMT

How GFCI Outlets Work

Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters or Residual Current Circuit Breakers are electrical wiring devices used as protection against electrical currents that are not balanced between the neutral conductor and the phase. These situations usually occur when current is being leaked through the body of a living being, from th...

9 June 2008
08:32 GMT

The Dreaded Truth about Sunscreens

As much as we all love sun exposure and praise its beneficial effects on our health, the truth that many of us still ignore - or refuse to believe - is that the sun can be a deadly enemy, particularly during the summer. Many of the common beliefs regarding the sun, things that we regard as absolute certainties and wh...

28 May 2008
06:59 GMT

Experts Forget Their Advice, Leave Laptops Unprotected

All security experts out there advise people to keep their laptops and computers protected and, when attending meetings and conferences, to avoid leaving their notebooks unprotected. Unfortunately, it seems like these experts are ignoring even their own advice as most of them left their computers open at Infosec Euro...

23 April 2008
09:15 GMT

Easily Protect Your Digital Life

We are living in a world saturated with incredible amounts of information, some of it free and public, while other - private and sensitive. While the free and public information is not protected in any meaningful way, there are all sorts of digital bits and pieces that almost everybody cares about, notwithstanding th...

31 January 2008
08:07 GMT

Computer Security. Is It so Difficult?

This week's pieces of news absolutely shocked me. I've never heard about so many data losses in such a short period of time ever! No matter they were caused by employees' negligence or by unexpected thefts, the data losses usually affected thousands of people with no fault for the leak. All of them wer...

12 December 2007
17:06 GMT

Arkansas Officials Fail To Remember Eight-Character Passwords

Approximately 35 Arkansas counties are very weak when it comes to computer security, KATV Channel 7 reported today. "State auditors say about half of Arkansas' 75 counties have inadequate security for their computer systems," the mentioned source wrote in an article published today. But what's more shocking...

15 November 2007
10:34 GMT

YouTube's Copyright Protection Efforts

It's a well-known fact that YouTube has serious problems with copyright infringement clips because the users are free to upload any clip they want. Pele, Daniela Cicarelli, Prince, the English soccer association, Viacom and many others were all involved into copyright cases with Google's YouTube after the ...

16 October 2007
15:46 GMT

Tutorial: How to Get Rid of That Pesky Virus

Have you ever been really annoyed by a virus? There are some threats that are really pesky and you can't get rid of them. And by this, I mean that you can't make them go away using the AV. I'm going to give you a little tutorial about one way to eliminate them, if you're running Windows. Here'...

26 September 2007
03:40 GMT

How to Properly Use UTM

I was searching the web in order to find out more about UTM firewalls and how to use them, when I bumped into something that allowed me to get a better view on how these things work. So, after reading what NetworkWorld had to say about this, here are a few tips on how to deploy these babies.The first thing to do is t...

31 August 2007
09:00 GMT

Nod32 - Really a solution?

On the 23rd of July, 2007 ESET announced that "The next generation of Server Products for Linux and FreeBSD is now available in Beta versions." In other words, ESET said that ESET Mail Security, ESET File Security and ESET Gateway Security (which is a new program) will be the solution for of those who have Linux and ...

31 July 2007
15:09 GMT

Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email Supported by Trust Digital

Trust Digital, a renowned provider of enterprise smartphone security management software, announced that from now on it supports corporate data protection for smartphone devices featuring Nokia Intellisync wireless e-mail platform. This sort of broadened compatibility for e-mail synchronization platforms (like the No...

12 July 2007
09:15 GMT

Revolutionary iSkin Protection for the iPhone

The iPhone has generated a great amount of interest, not only from the potential users, but also from accessory developers. A protective skin has been especially designed for this particular phone model, with high technology included, just a perfect match for Apple's phone.The iSkin is a revolutionary concept wh...

29 June 2007
09:26 GMT

Shield Up

Monitoring your own computer activity offers in many cases an additional protection layer to your system. Malware and all sorts of parasites that are trying to install on your computer can be prevented from doing their bidding before precious information is leaked out of your computer.Arovax Shield stands out among t...

6 March 2007
11:28 GMT

Remote Control for Windows Firewall?

Firewalls have the purpose of protecting your computer against outside attacks. Unlike anti virus software that prevents malicious code from installing on your computer and damaging your OS or personal files, a firewall is supposed to prevent unscrupulous people outside your network from accessing your computer. Wind...

5 March 2007
05:31 GMT


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