Latest Technology News & Developments in Comodo

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Comodo, through its group of Internet security companies, is a leading Certification Authority and global provider of Identity and Trust Assurance services on the Internet. Comodo secures and authenticates online transactions and communications for over 2,000,000 businesses and consumers.

With a global presence Comodo offers businesses and consumers third-generation solutions for intelligent security and authentication technologies that create trust online. Comodo's technological expertise includes PKI digital certification, Code signing certification, integrated authentication infrastructure services, Web Content authentication, Secure messaging solutions, PCI compliancy scanning, SSL digital certificates including our flagship InstantSSL brand, HackerGuardian, Banking solutions including Two Factor Authentication, and digital e-commerce services.

For additional information on Comodo - Creating Trust Online™ visit http://www.comodo.com/

Palm Security – Biometric Authentication for your PC – Personal Computer – by Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. Has developed a highly precise biometric authentication. It has the technology that can verify as person’s identity by recognizing the pattern of blood veins in the person’s palm. This new of Biometric authentication PC Security technology is more useful in the securing your PC. The use of this technology would enable convenient biometric authentication for a wide range of applications, such as safe guarding important information through log in verification for the access to sales, technical or personal data.

How this New Method of Biometric Authentication Technology does helps in PC Security?

This new 2008 technology, in which it has incorporated a prototype computer mouse, identifies an individual by the unique pattern of veins in the palm. Palm vein patterns are advantageous for this purpose because they are unique from one person to the next and expect for the size, they do not change as the individual grows. The authentication process works as follows.

The palm is first illuminated by an infrared light. The veins just beneath the skin of the palm then emit a black reflection, giving a picture of the veins of the palm.

Using a proprietary Fujitsu algorithm, the pattern is then extracted from this picture and is checked against patterns stored in the system if there is a match the person’s identity is confirmed. This biometric authentication will surely help computer users securing them from identity theft. Also some measures have been taken to build this technology into wall-plates or mobile readers for other applications – Which were previously used by having stored the thump impression. Now it would be the palm security for 2008. Biometric security is both easy to use and hard to defeat, so its no surprise that finger scanners are popping up on notebooks as well as PC peripherals. But once you have swiped them anyone can use the computer. Now around 700 people were experimented with this new technology. Fujitsu has not yet begun selling the Palm Secure PC login kit. Also keep in mind that the Palm Secure works only on Windows XP and Vista. If you want to have managed multi-user biometric authentication across the enterprise’s PC’s, you need the authentication server edition.

Continuing with the PC Security, you also need to have the Desktop Security and Internet Email security products as well. The job would be to be more safe and Secure from the world of phishing or virus attacks.

JobsNtech - Jobs & Technology - IT Security - Wishes Very Happy and a Prosperous New Year 2008

Wishing You All a Very Happy and a Prosperous New Year 2008

We hope you had a great Christmas and New Year Holiday and now back to Business. The IT Field has been booming in Chennai, India and So many IT, ITES, BPO companies has been set up here, with the headquarters in US, UK , Australia and other foreign countries. So inorder to have a secure access of the server and secure transmission of files, VPN’s are more important. And also being doing international business which includes secure and safe banking, secure financial transactions need to be carried on for online shopping too. Hence there is need for the Internet Security, to know more about the internet security measures have a look at the entire blog. And also if you are looking out for a change or wanted to pursue a career in an IT / ITES or Non-IT sector in the blooming hot IT hub Chennai, India - post your profile to JobsNtech i.e. Jobs & Technology HR Management Consultancy Services, who are currently in the look out for clients and candidatures.

Is your System affected with Virus, Trojans, and Worms? Here’s the security solution

Is that your system is affected by any deadly Virus, Trojans, Worms or Rootkits and you are unable to open or run any applications, here’s a few easy help guide to remove those.Also consider the Future of Internet Security.

Steps to follow to disinfect/ cure the Virus, Trojans, Worms or Rootkits in your system. So understand where you need to consider the Internet Security.

If you already have installed an Anti-virus in your System do the following -

1.) Go to My Computer> C: (C Drive), Select C Drive and Right Click > Select Scan for Viruses [ Also do scan for the D: Drive too]

2.) If the your Anti-Virus detects any virus and is unable to delete it, and you feel that the entire system is infected with that virus, you got to clean it from the Registry or you got to recover your system, follow the instructions to securely recover the data without any harm to your computer.

System Restoring:

Step 1: Start > Program Files > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore

Step 2: A window will appear. Select the date, in which your system was performing good.

Step 3: Click “OK” and Restart.

If this also not works, you got to clean your system by using the Registry. Also see that what the Operations are running in your system during the Startup.

Checking the Operations/Tasks Currently running in your system.

Do Follow: Start > Run (Type “msconfig” without Quotes> Click “OK”

You will see a Window with the following System Menu: General SYSTEM.INI WIN.INI BOOT.INI Services Startup

Click Services and Startup and check if any unwanted application is running in your system. If an unwanted application is running in your system, remove* that application, if you feel that it is surely an unwanted program or you can also click Ctrl+Alt+Delete in your keyboard, go to task manager and then processes and remove the unwanted application.

To Enter in to System Registry

Click Start>Run (type “Regedit” without Quotes) and Then go to the Virus infected application. You will see an application, that the virus would have made an entry in it, and select and delete it.

Also you can open Registry like this.

1. Start Registry Editor (Regedit.exe).
2. Locate the following key in the registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

Mostly when you go to regedit, be sure you check the Windows and System32 as mostly the virus mostly infects them.

If you don’t have choice to open any of Regedit or application or msconfig, there is no option, then you got to Format you C: Drive, using a boot up disk. Make sure, you take Back of all the data’s, to the D: Drive after scanning for viruses.

Once you finish the formatting, First thing, consider your system security and have an good updated Anti-virus System, Updated Firewall, Antispam and other Spy wares to prevent future Virus, Trojans, Worms or Root kits attacks.

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Be careful when you SMS... General Mobile SMS Security - Mobile Security

This is regarding the General Security, We got to know in General about the Mobile Security as well as our Security - to be Safe from the Credit Card and Debit Card Theifs. Here's goes the security issue story that happened to be real - Just an story for the General Security And Identity Theft Challenges.

Be careful when you SMS...

A True Story:

This lady has changed her habit on the hand phone after her handbag was stolen. Her handbag which contained her mobile, credit card, purse etc. was stolen. Twenty minutes later when she called her hubby, telling him what had happened, her hubby says 'I've just received your SMS asking about our Pin number and I've replied a little while ago.'

When they rushed down to the bank, the bank staff told them all the money was already withdrawn. The pickpocket had actually used the stolen hand phone to sms 'hubby' in the contact list and got hold of the pin number. Within 20 minutes he had withdrawn all the money from the bank account.

Moral of the lesson:

Do not disclose the relationship between you and the person in your contact list. Avoid using names like Home, Honey, Hubby, Sweetheart, Dad, Mum etc...... and very importantly, when sensitive info is being asked thru SMS, CONFIRM by calling back.

PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO YOUR LOVED ONES AND FRIENDS

Comodo Firewall Pro Version 3.0 Released - Microsoft Vista™ Compatible Free Firewall

The most expected Comodo Firewall Pro Version 3.0 has been released. The Free Comodo Firewall does an very good job from a prevent than at a detection perspective. The Free Comodo Firewall pro supports both the XP and Vista (32 & 64 bit) versions and is now ready for download. There are so many major updates made in this free firewall, that it has got multiplex architecture which include the features of Anti-Virus, Anti-spyware, Anti-Malware, Rootkit, Trojan and so on.

The advancement in this free version of Comodo Firewall has been a welcoming one worldwide. To know more about this advanced version of Comodo Firewall Pro – Visit http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com

Email Encryption and Data Encryption – The Current Security Trend

Not only the IT companies but also the other sectors related to IT uses less security IT systems. For the past few months there have been new threats on the internet so the levels of the security obviously need to be increased. About 99% of the internet users use email as one of the potent business tools as well as personal tool, this is of course a vulnerable system for attack. Visit www.ezencrypt.com.

Securing the email must be the top to-do list of any corporate security expert in an organization. If the organization uses the emails for transferring more important and high confidential matter via email then there is an need for secure email gateway or encrypted email. Not only secure email systems but also other internet security desktop products such as anti-spam, anti-malware, anti-virus or firewall should be installed to have an highly secure environment over the internet.

Many corporations use an email gateway that encrypts messages as they leave the corporate perimeter. The problem with this approach is that it leaves internal mail completely unprotected and vulnerable to data theft, packet sniffing and malicious insiders. Though some of the organizations are comfortable using the VPN’s (Virtual Private Network), still if the organization is big, they need to provide an higher level of email security to save all the important and unimportant information sending/receiving out via their network, in a way that they are not vulnerable to malicious attacks.

Inorder to provide an suitable email encryption option, the point is to install an email security technology that would encrypt all the message/email that are sent from a client to any other client. If such email encryption technology is implemented, then there won’t be much insecure email traffic. The latest technology has been providing high end security tools and software, which is being integrated in the email system, which has made the email system management more easier and secure. So if any organisation that handles sensitive data or shooting out confidential email then email encryption is a must.

The email client encryption solutions are now extensible and are sufficient enough to take part in the enterprise encryption strategy with easy and flexible deployment. Now its almost high time, that all the organizations which use or do business via internet are vulnerable to attacks from hackers, so it’s a must that there should some standardized measures and polices that needs to be implemented, to have an secure internet and secure email system.

Incase a business or organization does an business via Internet in their own website also needs to have SSL security or Extended SSL encryption, Email certificates, etc and also should educate the consumers in doing an secure eCommerce business, inorder to prove their business identity and assurance by proving them that they are doing secure shopping.

Also take a minute to answer this survey inorder to provide you with more secure environment over the internet – Internet security Form

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