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Wi-Fi Tracker - Improved Laptop SecurityLast month we reported that security software from Cyberangel, helped to catch a thief when he tried to log on to the web using a stolen laptop. The software revealed the telephone number used to connect to the internet, and the boys in blue took it from there, matching the telephone number to the scammer's address - Game over.Now Cyberangel in partnership with Skyhook Wireless, a company at the vanguard of Wi-Fi metro-area positioning tech, have rolled out a new software canon, onto the laptop security battlefield - Wi-Fi Tracker. This program is built on Skyhook's innovative Wireless Positioning System, and should enable notebook owners, to pinpoint the exact location of a missing laptop. How does Wi-Fi tracker work? Well when a thief boots up a stolen laptop, the CyberAngel authentication is breached. That's when the software begins to silently transmit the location of the notebook. Our light fingered chum is blissfully unaware that an alert is being transmitted, and that the Skyhook Wireless system is transmitting his/her exact latitude and longitude to law enforcement agencies. Hence, a more than likely rapid recovery 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 laptop theft. Indeed even the assistant of Arnold Schwarznegger had her laptop stolen. So if big Arnie's notebook was terminated, it could happen to us as well. The statistics are worrying. According to Safeware The Insurance Agency, over 600,000 notebook computers are stolen or lost every year. Increasingly business folk are using >laptops as mobile offices, so when the notebook goes missing, precious data, client details, bank account numbers, medical records and other confidential information, often fall into the hands of criminals. Indeed, stolen laptops are helping to fuel identity theft, which has become one of the fastest growing crimes in the United Kingdom, costing in excess of 1 billion pounds every year, according to the British Home Office. By Lucy Layman Tuesday, June 21, 2005 |
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