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Oracle Database Firewall

Oracle Database Firewall

While there will continue to be much publicized cases of lost or stolen laptops containing Personally Identifiable Information (PII), attempts to steal large amounts of... Read more

10 January, 2011
Protectorion Data Safe 3.3

Protectorion Data Safe 3.3

...and other unauthorized persons from reading and misusing confidential data on PCs, stolen laptops and lost flash drives. Manage all encrypted files and protected passwords... Read more

14 May, 2012

MoD revises tally of stolen laptops to 658

...security. "For all years, they show an increase in the number of stolen laptops from the numbers previously reported… because the Burton Review investigation revealed... Read more

22 July, 2008 by Kable

Government admits to 200 more stolen laptops

The Ministry of Justice has been revealed as the worst offender, according to figures on laptop, mobile-phone and PDA losses across government departments Read more

20 February, 2008 by Nick Heath

Hospital bitten by watchdog over stolen laptops

Unencrypted data goes walkabout… again Read more

6 February, 2009 by Nick Heath
Novell Zenworks Endpoint Security Management: Total Control from a Single Console

Novell Zenworks Endpoint Security Management: Total Control from a Single Console

...super gluing your USB ports shut? Unauthorized access to networks, lost or stolen laptops and other mobile hardware, and theft of proprietary information or intellectual... Read more

19 September, 2008

Bank of Ireland loses four unencrypted laptops

The stolen laptops contained sensitive details of around 10,000 customers, including names, addresses... Read more

23 April, 2008 by Tom Espiner
Mobile User Location-Specific Encryption (MULE): Using Your Office as Your Password

Mobile User Location-Specific Encryption (MULE): Using Your Office as Your Password

Data breaches due to stolen laptops are a major problem. Solutions exist to secure sensitive files on... Read more

24 March, 2010
Novell Zenworks Endpoint Security Management: Total Control from a Single Console

Novell Zenworks Endpoint Security Management: Total Control from a Single Console

Unauthorized access to networks, lost or stolen laptops and other mobile hardware, and theft of proprietary information or intellectual... Read more

21 February, 2008

Microsoft warns of rise in scareware, PDF exploits

The company's latest Security Intelligence Report shows a rise in the use of rogue security software and attacks targeting PDF, Word and other common file formats Read more

8 April, 2009 by Elinor Mills

Police fund tracking software for at-risk laptops

...it is reported stolen. This should enable the police to locate any stolen laptops that go online. The force is publicising the move in an... Read more

15 October, 2008 by Kable

Lost laptops get open-source rescue service

...researchers has released a free, open-source system for tracking lost or stolen laptops, arguing that the system's architecture is more reliable and ensures... Read more

30 July, 2008 by Matthew Broersma

Businesses address laptop data theft

...discourage theft in the first place by improving the capability to track stolen laptops. He said: "I would love to find a free piece of... Read more

16 May, 2007 by Andy McCue

Exclusive: How safe is your laptop?

...that. Devon and Cornwall saw a 45 per cent increase (from 276 stolen laptops to 401). Bedfordshire witnessed a 35 per cent increase, while Lothian... Read more

8 May, 2007 by Will Sturgeon

Man charged with stealing Cabinet Office laptop

...asked numerous questions of cabinet ministers regarding the government's lost and stolen laptops. A written parliamentary answer from the secretary of state for defence... Read more

30 July, 2003 by Munir Kotadia

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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Iain Sutherland

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SoapyTablet

If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

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Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

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pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

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Jake Rayson

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archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

14 hours ago by unlockworldwide on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
NarayanaIyyappan

It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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Sungwoo

do You know that? it can install 4G Ram. So i buy 4g and install It work! I can run call of duty 4,6,7 [Modern war... 1,2,3] Call of duty 1 was...

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itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

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Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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Jason Burchell

seriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...

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Philip Charles Cohen

Read about it and weep, John Donahoe ... In addition to Visa’s V.me, there is now MasterCard’s PayPass digital wallet soon to arrive; another...

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apexwm

Leslie Satenstein : Where have you ever seen Mozilla even mention this? Firefox is the most popular browser in the GNU/Linux OS, so I don't see...

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