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Top 10 Security Threats in the First Half 2011
AhnLab unveiled its Top 10 Security Threats in the first half of 2011: Malware paths in social networking sites; an increased threat to Mac OS users; growing menaces to online banking; and more sophisticated online game hacking are among these highlighted threats.
“Threats to mobile and online security are constantly becoming more sophisticated,” said Mr. HongSun Kim, CEO of AhnLab. “Therefore, it is essential to remain alert and aware of growing online trends and threats. AhnLab provides insight into the latest online threats so that all stakeholders can take measures for protection.”
Social Network Services as Malware Path
In its findings, AhnLab emphasizes that 2011 is the year of social networking services. These services are considered a useful and popular means to connect with networks and relay messages to broad audiences. In the same vein, these sites have proven beneficial to malware paths. More specifically, a trend whereby attackers distribute malware through dominant social networking sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, has become more prominent. Attackers tend to disseminate malware by using shorted URLs connected to popular issues such as the tsunami in Japan and Osama Bin Laden’s death. Read more
AVG Premium Security launched
AVG Technologies announced AVG Premium Security, the all-new and only Internet security solution that actively surveys the Web for incidents of stolen identity. Available now for US$69.99, the product includes AVG Identity Alert, AVG Internet Security and AVG Quick Tune.
Placing identity protection at the center of the new offering, AVG Identity Alert scours criminal web pages, chat rooms and bulletin boards to determine whether a customer’s personal information has been used, traded or sold online. By monitoring a user’s e-mail address and debit and credit card numbers—the three primary elements of an online identity—the system notifies the user if personal details appear somewhere they shouldn’t.
AVG Identity Alert also provides an Identity Theft Risk Score, which evaluates online theft risk based on behavioral characteristics, and an Identity Theft Restoration Kit, which provides documentation, sample letters and other tools for restoring an identity should it be compromised. Read more
NASA’s iPad App Beams Science Straight to Users
NASA satellites beam data from space; now the Agency is beaming it straight to your iPad.
Software and media specialists at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., released a new iPad app — the NASA Visualization Explorer — that allows users to easily interact with extraordinary images, video, and information about NASA’s latest Earth science research.
Cutting-edge visualization has long been a staple of NASA Earth science and in particular the Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) at Goddard Space Flight Center. The iPad presented NASA a new and easily accessible way to put stunning and beautiful Earth science visualizations directly in people’s hands.
The app’s science features will include high-resolution movies and stills and short written stories to put all the pieces in context. Most of the movies are simply real satellite data, visualized. Other features will include interviews with scientists or imagery from supercomputer modeling efforts. The app includes social networking interfaces, including links to Facebook and Twitter, for easy sharing of stories. Read more
Iglu Software helps parents keep their Internet cool
There’s no question that internet has become an integral part of every child’s life.
Yet, the sheer volume of information and constant changes often leave parents feeling helpless against the task of keeping kids safe. In 2010 alone, more than 50 million new websites were created, making blocking inappropriate sites virtually impossible. Iglu is the first and only software that allows parents to tap the expertise of other parents, educators and internet safety experts to create a safe webspace for children.
Iglu (www.iceio.com) is new, community-based software that enables parents to compile and manage safe webspaces while encouraging critical thinking and conversation regarding safe web choices for children. Webspaces are groupings of age appropriate websites compiled by parents, educators and internet safety experts. With Iglu’s social component, parents can also create their own webspace and share with other parents. If a child wants to add a new website to their webspace, they simply send a request to the parent. This approval process encourages open communication regarding a child’s Internet habits while encouraging critical thinking. Read more
ID Watchdog Announced Agreement With BitDefender to Provide Consumers With Early Warning System for Identity Theft
ID Watchdog Inc. announced an agreement with BitDefender, an award-winning provider of innovative internet security solutions.
Together ID Watchdog and BitDefender will be developing a new service to provide consumers with additional ways to protect private data beyond just the PC.
By creating tools and services that will provide the first alerts to possible identity theft, ID Watchdog and BitDefender will empower consumers to play a more active role in defending their online identity.
“We are committed to continuing to offer our customers new ways to protect their personal information,” said Florin Talpes, CEO, BitDefender. “This partnership with ID Watchdog is right in line with this commitment. Working together with the ID Watchdog team, we will be able to offer new features that will provide added levels of security to our customers that our competitors don’t have.” Read more