Wi-Fi Tracker - Improved Laptop Security

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Cyberangel and Skyhook Wireless, have just wheeled a new software canon, out onto the security battlefield - Wi-Fi Tracker. Based on Skyhook's innovative wireless positioning technology, this computer program can sniff out a stolen laptop with the tenacity of a hungry bloodhound.

Last monthwe reported that security software from Cyberangel,helped to catch a thief when he tried to log on to the web usinga stolen laptop. The software revealed the telephone number usedto connect to the internet, and the boys in blue took it fromthere, matching the telephone number to the scammer's address -Game over.

Now Cyberangel in partnership with Skyhook Wireless, a company atthe vanguard of Wi-Fi metro-area positioning tech, have rolledout a new software canon, onto the laptop security battlefield -Wi-Fi Tracker. This program is built on Skyhook's innovativeWireless Positioning System, and should enable notebook owners,to pinpoint the exact location of a missinglaptop.

How doesWi-Fi tracker work? Well when a thief boots up a stolenlaptop, the CyberAngel authentication is breached. That'swhen the software begins to silently transmit the location of thenotebook. Our light fingered chum is blissfully unaware that analert is being transmitted, and that the Skyhook Wirelesssystem is transmitting his/her exact latitude and longitude tolaw enforcement agencies. Hence, a more than likely rapidrecovery of the stolen computer.

But, is all this hi-tech security software really neccessary?Well yes, it is. There are many high profile victimes of laptoptheft. Indeed even the assistant of Arnold Schwarznegger had herlaptop stolen. So if big Arnie's notebook was terminated, it could happento us as well.

The statistics are worrying. According to Safeware The InsuranceAgency, over 600,000 notebook computers are stolen or lost every year. Increasingly business folk are using >laptopsas mobile offices, so when the notebook goes missing, preciousdata, client details, bank account numbers, medical records andother confidential information, often fall into the hands ofcriminals.

Indeed, stolen laptops are helping to fuel identity theft, whichhas become one of the fastest growing crimes in the UnitedKingdom, costing in excess of 1 billion pounds every year,according to the British Home Office.

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