Integral launches a successor to its Crypto Drive, the Crypto Dual-- with dual password protection and and dual OS compatibility. 

Compatible with Windows and Mac OS, it carries AES 256-bit hardware encryption with FIPS 197 validation (Certificate no. 1137). 

Users must setup their password (requires a high strength alphnumeric 8-16 character password) before use due to the Dual's mandatory encryption, while an optional Master password override allows data recovery if a user forgets their password. 

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As SMBs carry out more business online the need to keep sensitive information becomes ever more critical, Symantec says in its 2011 Internet Security Threat Report. 

The report says Symantec detected more than 286m threats in 2010, a number set to rise through 2011.

Nowadays even novice hackers can infect company computers to steal bank account logins and details, thanks to easily available attack toolkits-- now with added Java exploits.

Social networks are also a threat, as cybercrimals use them to share malware by disguising malicious links with Read more...

Researchers at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) say data on SSDs is more difficult to erase than that on HDDs, in their study "Reliably Erasing Data From Flash-Based Solid State Drives."

The study tells how sanitising SSDs of data is a difficult task-- if not nearly impossible. Not even overwriting data several times ensures data erasure, as the researchers say they still recovered data on some products. As the paper says: "all single-file overwrite sanitization protocols failed: between 4% and 75% of the files' contents remained Read more...

Nir Zuk, Founder and CEO of Palo Alto Networks, lacks neither confidence nor wit. In only 18 months, Palo Alto already claims $100 million in bookings and 3000 users, including top corporations and governments. But Zuk’s larger claim is that Palo Alto Networks has "the world’s only next generation firewall."

Now the phrase “next generation firewall” has been bantered about for some time. Most industry observers expect firewalls and IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) to somehow consolidate into a single box to create the legendary next generation fire Read more...