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3 Steps to Protect Confidential Data on Laptops: Guidelines to Secure Data Before and After a Laptop Is Stolen or Missing
White Papers In 2005, laptop theft alone accounted for 33% of reported data breach events. This paper outlines specific steps to help secure confidential data and minimize the impact of data loss resulting from stolen or missing laptops.
[August 5, 2009, 1:21]
Xandros 3.0 focuses on security
News Our firewall wizard makes it a cinch to secure your laptop or PC from Internet intruders, and all it normally takes to set up a secure connection to a VPN account is a host name, user name, and password," said Typaldos in a statement.
[December 8, 2004, 16:30]
Lost laptop data needs P45-level protection
Leader Yet while your data centre lives behind bolted doors deep in the bowels of a secure building, the laptop will follow its owner into bars, cafés, the back of the car and the front room at home. Buy an intrinsically secure laptop in the first place.
[November 22, 2006, 16:52]
Laptop swiped at security show
News In a previous article on ZDNet UK, Girard gave these five recommendations to keep your laptop secure: Lock the laptop or removable hard drive if equipped in a secure place when it's not in use. The laptop of a security firm salesman was stolen...
[September 22, 2004, 12:15]
Lenovo ThinkPads to get text-message kill switch
News This kind of cellular-based remote-kill functionality is fairly widespread in the corporate mobile-phone market and is common in military and secure voice-communications systems, but is only now becoming feasible in the laptop world, through the...
[November 25, 2008, 12:21]
Centrino holed by Wi-Fi flaws
News One could allow an attacker to break into a PC via Wi-Fi or even create a worm that jumps from one wireless-enabled laptop to another, provided the computers are within each other's range. The vulnerability involving the Intel Centrino wireless...
[August 3, 2006, 10:55]
U.S. Clamps Down On Laptop Snoops
Blog Inspectors will have to state the suspicion, secure the approval of a superior, and examine the contents of the laptop in a confidential surrounding - in the presence of the superior and the laptop’s owner.
[September 30, 2008, 11:46]
Win2K VPN connections
News By using tunneling protocols, such as PPTP or LT2P, secure connections can be configured between a client's laptop or home machine and a company's LAN, as diagrammed in Figure A.Figure AVPNs use tunneling protocols to create secure connections...
[June 18, 2002, 16:17]
Security time bomb is triggered by 'rogue laptops'
News Many of these machines are behind a corporate firewall and have so far escaped infection, but security experts say they represent a security time bomb that could be set off by an infected laptop connecting to the internal network.
[June 4, 2004, 18:00]
Secure wireless workers
News Many corporations have established policies and installation procedures to equip corporate laptops with the software -- and provided laptop users with the training necessary -- to make secure, tunneled corporate connections using standards like PPTP.
[August 15, 2002, 9:47]
Security fears over London's blanket Wi-Fi
News WPA is based on the 802.11i standard and encrypts data sent between a user's laptop and the access point. Whenever Wi-Fi access is available, there are several organisations involved: the site owner, the service provider, the person with the laptop...
[February 22, 2006, 13:15]
Net Politics Focus: Ministers log on to 'virtual' Red Box
News This is why the current prototype is an entirely software-based system that can be installed on any laptop. Laptops are now stolen to order".We know of one CEO of a top international firm who had his laptop stolen at an airport in a sophisticated...
[August 7, 1998, 11:21]
Fear and laziness stunt Wi-Fi growth
News He said users may feel they have a secure connection at a coffee shop, only to find someone can get into their laptop when it isn't connected to the WLAN because their PC card is still openly broadcasting.
[March 26, 2003, 16:28]
Bluetooth phones at risk from 'snarfing'
News According to Laurie, he can initiate a bluesnarfing attack from his laptop after making a modification to its Bluetooth settings: "It is a standard Bluetooth-enabled laptop and the only special bit is the software I am using in the Bluetooth stack.
[February 9, 2004, 13:15]
NHS security breach in Scotland revealed
News NHS Education for Scotland has agreed to sharpen up its data security practices after having an unencrypted laptop stolen. The laptop contained personal information on 6,377 applicants for medical training positions.
[September 10, 2009, 9:56]
Why I've moved from Vista to Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Vista was slow as a dead dog on my laptop. For the record, Ubuntu detected everything on my laptop and my scanner and digital camera and webcam all run fine too without any drivers that aren't already there in Linux.
[October 23, 2007, 14:30]
MultiTasker - messaging made easy
Downloads It has other very useful features - AUTO / FORWARD SMS, ENCYRPT SMS and CREATE YOUR OWN TEMPLATE Features: File SMS via BT/IR/Data Cable User can type the messages and transfer it from PC/LapTop to your mobile Via BT/IR/Data Cable and send to...
[May 26, 2005, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News A hundred dollars a pop, and Diamond Multimedia will hook up your PC to your laptop, or your laptop to your modem.and in future your VCR, home alarm and what have you. How secure are they? Absolutely secure" say the people who sell them.
[August 8, 1998, 7:05]
Secure Notebook X
Downloads Secure Notebook helps to find stolen laptop computers by using a hidden background application to send Arin whois queries and other useful information to an email account. Just enter your email address, SMTP server and you're ready to go!
[July 22, 2002, 8:00]
Secure Notebook (OS X)
Downloads From the developer: "Secure Notebook helps to find stolen laptop computers by using a hidden background application to send Arin whois queries and other useful information to an email account. Just enter your email address, SMTP server and you&apos...
[August 7, 2002, 12:46]
