Upgrade of SafeStick and SafeConsole enables users to launch portable software anytime, anywhere   16 December 2009 – London, UK – BlockMaster (www.blockmastersecurity.com) a leading provider of manageable secure USB devices, today launches SafeStick and SafeConsole 4.0, designed to provide organisations with the ability to push out portable software (including virtualisation), backup data and to effectively stop the flood of data breaches.   The solution has been designed to provide more adequate access control over USB flash drives, which are one of the main causes of data breaches, according to the European Networking and Information Security Agency’s 2009 report. The new products incorporate several features to boost mobile productivity, whilst ensuring company information is completely secure.   Now SafeConsole server administrators also fully manage these additional new features for the organisation’s SafeStick devices: ·         Publisher - enables users to run a virtual laptop from any computer using a SafeStick secure USB device.

NYMGO Service to Work Securely for Users Protected by any Firewall, NAT or Web Proxy.

Coventry, UK and Oslo, Norway – December 15, 2009. NYMGO, Splendor Telecom’s VoIP service, has been strengthened with the addition of Paradial’s RealTunnel Firewall/NAT traversal solution. The enhancement enable users to use services like placing and receiving high quality audio calls even when located behind strict private, public and corporate firewalls.

NYMGO will provide customers with the best communication and support services to create a positive user experience. The advanced design and easy to use NYMGO softphone let customers call the whole world from nearly all kinds of network configurations.

Serious SQL flaw could have compromised millions of Rockyou.com users

London, 14th December 2009 - Imperva has issued a warning after finding a serious SQL injection flaw with Rockyou.com - a social networking application development web site.

"Rockyou.com is not just any software site.  Since its creation in 2006, it's become the hub for many social networking sites such as Bebo, Facebook and Myspace, to mention but a few," said Amichai Shulman, chief technology officer with the data security specialist.

"The bad news is that the SQL injection flaw could have allowed hackers to access the 32 million entries of user names plus passwords in the Rockyou.com database - and since the user names and passwords are by default the same as the users webmail account—such as Hotmail, Yahoo or Gmail—this is a major lapse in security," he added.

14th December 2009 - Weekend reports that the Ministry of Defence is investigating the theft of a laptop - together with a security key used to decode the data on the notebook - is jawdropping in its apparent lack of common sense, says Credant Technologies, says Credant Technologies.

"It's one thing to have excellent encryption on a laptop, but it's entirely another to have the security key - presumably a USB stick or similar - located along with the machine," said Sean Glynn, the endpoint security specialist's product manager.

"This smacks of lax security on a scale that is breathtaking in its crassness. There is little or no point in having encryption on a portable device if the authentication key is stored with the machine," he added.