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Track, locate and recover your lost or stolen computer AND your missing USB devices
posted on 03/04/2012

Creator of MacPhoneHome and PC PhoneHome, Brigadoon Software, launches its latest version of PC PhoneHome and MacPhoneHome version 3.5. This new version offers several new security and communication upgrades required by recent changes in internet protocol. The company's PC PhoneHome and MacPhoneHome is the number one stand-alone computer tracking and recovery software in the world to both the Windows and Mac communities. Soon they will release PhoneHome protection for iPods,iPhones, iPads, Android Tablets, Android Phones and USB Devices. This will be available as a FREE Upgrade to all customers... Also Brigadoon Software is going to launch USB PhoneHome, a brand new application that will protect and provide PhoneHome protection to all your USB devices such as: Thumb Drives, External Hard Drives, External Backup Disks & Firewire External Storage Devices. Currently, over 1,500,000 computers worldwide are protected. Unlike OTHER computer tracking products, PC PhoneHome and MacP... [more]

Weaponised doc files targeting Apple Mac users spotted by AlienVault
posted on 02/04/2012

A family of weaponised doc (MS-Office) files have been discovered by AlienVault. These weaponised doc files - in the wild are targeting the Apple Mac platform, which the company says is highly unusual given the low incidence of Apple Mac vulnerabilities. According to Jaime Blasco, a researcher at AlienVault, the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions specialist, the fact that the weaponised attacks are already in the wild is of concern, as it means that regular Mac users - many of whom do not have the kind of IT security software on their machines that their Windows colleagues do - are vulnerable to infection and computer hijacking. The hackers behind this latest family of attacks are the same anti-Tibetan group that Blasco has been tracking and written about in several weeks. The pro-Chinese hackers are, he says, continuing to escalate the cold war - which has existed between the two countries for more than 60 years - into cyberspace. "What is interesting abo... [more]

HarmAlarm New-Old Market
posted on 30/03/2012

Physical Security upgrades for the old-new markets by Infrared Applications Inc. The majority of Physical Security Systems in operation today are limited to the collecting of video data which is used for a post mortem event analysis. The recorded data is often useful in identifying the culprits and suggesting changes to improve security. Unfortunately record-only systems do little to either prevent the actual breach or to apprehend the perpetrators at the time of the incident. To have an effective real time capability it is generally recognized you need security analysts monitoring the security videos. This is an expense that is often beyond the reach of many small businesses. Infrared Applications Inc. (IAI) believes this will soon be changing by our introduction of HarmAlarm. HarmAlarm is the next generation in Physical Security. The long sought goal of video analytics has been the automatic detection and verification of security threats including the elimination of false al... [more]

Smart security for prestigious Pretoria Estate intercepted by Hennops River
posted on 29/03/2012

Zwartkop Golf Estate, situated in Centurion on the outskirts of Tshwane, is positioned around the prestigious Zwartkop Country Club offering an exceptional quality of life in a pristine environment. The beautiful Hennops River meanders lazily through the mature woodland and manicured lawns of the Zwartkop Golf Course. C3 Shared Services, specialists in electronic perimeter security solutions, were commissioned to design and install a full turnkey perimeter security solution to secure this prestigious estate. C3 installed forty analogue Monochrome CCD cameras with IR Illuminators on the four kilometre perimeter. An additional three thermal cameras were also installed to monitor the fairways of the golf course and inner perimeter where the Hennops River enters the estate. The analogue cameras on the perimeter and the thermal cameras monitoring the golf course and river entrance are combined with intelligent video analytics and integrated onto a very ‘simple to use’ video management platfo... [more]

Invitation to trial the free, open beta of CertiVox’s new secure information exchange platform
posted on 23/03/2012

If you are one of the millions of people who understand the importance of encrypting your personal data for all things Internet, then you’ll appreciate the opportunity to be part of an exclusive opportunity to try the new open beta of CertiVox’s much anticipated PrivateSky Secure Information Exchange (S.I.X.)™ platform. This new, free service provides fast, one-click encryption for messages, files and other information; a solid solution that finally make it safe, and easy, to do business in the cloud. It’s a fact: HTTPS / SSL simply do not secure your data in totality. Other encryption programs are multi-step, time-consuming and confusing. But the PrivateSky S.I.X.™ platform uses breakthrough patent(s)-pending Incognito Keys™, the industry's first sophisticated, certificateless key management system, and an HTML5 two-factor authentication technology to protect your information and ensure that no one, not even CertiVox, can see your data. The process is easily activated by the click o... [more]

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