Jersey City, NJ, November 10, 2009 – With basic precautions, busy shoppers can save time and trouble by shopping over the Internet.
Especially when hunting for obscure items or odd sizes, shoppers can find more variety online than they can find in local stores. Unfortunately, the quality of the merchants they encounter online also varies widely. [...]

Random Ideas, LLC today announced the release of What’s Goin Down 2.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch. What’s Goin Down is a sophisticated, professional grade TCP server network monitoring tool. It allows you to test network connectivity to virtually any TCP based network service, including HTTP, HTTPS, POP, IMAP, SSH and SMTP, and can be [...]

Ixquick is the only leading search engine with HTTPS encryption plus privacy
Ixquick, the world’s most private search engine, received praise for its outstanding security and data handling practices last week from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a well-respected privacy group representing over 50,000 consumers.
EFF praised Ixquick for its ”truly excellent privacy policy, ” which experts [...]

California based app4mac today released the final version of Twin 1.0, a new online backup solution for Mac OS X. Twin is a true Mac product that preserves Finder info, resource forks, ACLs, Privileges and comes with an elegant user interface and a powerful assistant. Twin is very flexible, and compatible with most Internet servers: [...]

Bloxx releases Tru-View Technology Version 5.0
Bloxx, the enterprise web filtering company, today announced the release of its latest version of its Tru-View Technology web filtering appliance v.5.0. The appliance range now includes enhanced protection against secure anonymous proxies and improved real-time monitoring and reporting. In addition, the appliances now incorporate the Internet Watch Foundation’s database [...]

First Extensible Threat Management Appliance, WatchGuard XTM 1050
September 16, 2008 – WatchGuard® Technologies today previewed its first extensible threat management (XTM) network security appliance, the WatchGuard XTM 1050, at Interop New York.
Designed for enterprise campuses, data centres and other high-performance network environments, the WatchGuard XTM 1050 sets a new standard for high security and [...]

New version of School Guardian Blocks UltraSurf and other HTTPS proxies
National Educational Computing Conference 2008
Booths 967-969
Internet security specialists SmoothWall announce that their new School Guardian web filter now incorporates pioneering support for blocking secure proxies such as UltraSurf.
Often described as ‘unblockable’, UltraSurf is a 100kb download that once installed allows students to visit blocked [...]

Effective immediately, e-mail encryption solutions from Zertificon work with operating system from Sun Microsystems
Effective immediately, the Z1 SecureMail products from Zertificon Solutions GmbH for e-mail encryption are also compatible with Solaris 10. In the future, all Zertificon solutions and their product options can thus be operated under the latest version of the operating system [...]