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Warrant of Entry: R S Locksmiths expands

Alan Harper has joined R S Locksmiths as Contracts Manager, bringing 20 years experience from ADT Fire & Security. Alan will focus on the Finance and Utility Sectors. Alan will also head the company's Electronic Security Division. R S Locksmiths, which has been trading since 1991 prides itself in Non Destructive Entry. Its Clients include EDF Energy, PDP, Siemens, NPower and Scottish & Southern Electric. A lot of their work is Warrant of Entry, where they gain access to premises to install Ke... [more]

WebFilter: Free Blue Coat Internet Filtering Software Helps Protect Families from Online Fraud and Identity Theft

Phishing has resulted in a growing amount of identity theft, robbery and fraud. According to industry researchers, the average losses from phishing are now over $3,000 per incident and the total damages suffered by users victimised by phishing are well over $1 billion per year. Banking and retail sites, including Amazon.com, eBay and PayPal, have been some of the most popular for criminals to impersonate through counterfeit sites using phishing schemes. Social networking sites, such as MySpac... [more]

WALL firewall: SafeBoot acquires altaVENTE mobile product range

SafeBoot has announced it has acquired altaVENTE’s complete mobile product range, which includes its Mobile Manager and Wall Products. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. altaVENTE, a Microsoft Gold Partner based in the UK delivering professional solutions for the Microsoft Windows Mobile platform, worked in collaboration with SafeBoot on the development of Mobile Manager. Mobile Manager features include over-the-air mobile application deployment, device locking, device lock and wipe, ap... [more]

Webcoffre virtual vault: Webcoffre provides secure online facility for long-term archiving of Caisse d’Epargne electronic documents

In response to the demand for long-term archiving of electronic documents, the Caisse d'Epargne offers its clients a secure online facility through Atos Worldline, ensuring high-level security, document integrity and time and date stamping in accordance with the AFNOR NF Z 42-013 standard and RFC 3161 specification. Internet users can choose between three storage options (1GB, 5GB or 10GB) for their personal or professional documents; scanned documents, photographs, PDF files, Word documents,... [more]

Web Filter and Mobile Filter: Websense acquires SurfControl

Websense, Inc. has closed its acquisition of SurfControl plc, as the scheme of arrangement relating to the recommended offer for SurfControl plc, at a price of 700 pence per share, has now become effective. The final purchase price is approximately £204 million, including deferred compensation and stock option expense. As a result, Websense offers a set of content security solutions that intelligently protect customers from external malicious attacks and internal information leaks, delivere... [more]

WIN32/Obfuscated: Increase in threats that use obfuscation techniques such as runtime packing, polymorphism and junk code

Threats that use obfuscation techniques such as runtime packing, polymorphism and junk code injection to hide their malicious functionality accounted for 7.58% of malware detected in August. According to ESET's ThreatSense.Net, which reports detection statistics from millions of client computers around the world, WIN32/Obfuscated, a generic name for malware that hides its true intention, was the number one threat to computer users. In second place, accounting for 3.40% of malware threats ... [more]