Category Archives: Security
McAfee Introduces Comprehensive, Expert Technical Support Services For UK Consumers
Range of bundled services enables consumers to choose which is best for them
London, UK – May 2, 2012 – McAfee today announced a suite of comprehensive technical support services designed to help consumers meet the growing complexity of devices that their individual or family’s digital lifestyle needs. McAfee® TechMaster™ services include a variety of bundled offerings that are competitively priced and leverage McAfee award-winning technical support capabilities.
Mobile data privacy breaches mean churn: 83% of consumers would change operator if their privacy was compromised
75% of consumers would pay more for privacy-protected apps: clear opportunity for operators to make margin and retain customers
London, 26 April, 2012 – AdaptiveMobile, the world leader in mobile security, today reveals that 83% of consumers would change their operator if their privacy was compromised. According to AdaptiveMobile’s third Global Security Insights in Mobile report, polling 1024 consumers, eight out of ten consumers feel extremely strongly about security, representing both an opportunity and a threat for operators today. However, the public is also willing to invest in good security, with 75% willing to pay more to gain privacy-protected apps.
Kaspersky Lab Enters Samsung Application store
Abingdon, UK, 10 April 2012 – Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, announces that it has signed up to Samsung Apps. The Samsung apps store has started stocking Kaspersky Lab’s solutions for both smartphones and tablets – Kaspersky Mobile Security and Kaspersky Tablet Security. These security solutions can now be downloaded to Android-running Samsung devices all over the world. They are also available online in nine different languages: Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Korean, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish.
Lookout Projects Lost and Stolen Phones Could Cost U.S. Consumers Over $30 Billion in 2012
Lookout Study Identifies Top U.S. Cities for Phone Loss: Philadelphia, Seattle and Oakland
San Francisco – March 22, 2012 – Lookout, the global leader in mobile security, today released findings from the first-ever phone loss study, which revealed that lost phones, if unrecovered, could cost U.S. consumers more than $30 billion this year. As part of the study, Lookout Labs today released the Mobile Lost & Found, an interactive website for people to discover the places where phones are most often lost, the likelihood of losing a phone by region, and the financial impact of lost phones.
Kaspersky Lab Ends Year with Winning Streak of Comparative Test Victories
Abingdon, UK, 08 February 2012 – Kaspersky Lab saw in the New Year in a positive mood after a series of top marks in several comparative tests. First up in this string of wins was corporate solution Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8 for Windows and the consumer solution Kaspersky Internet Security 2012.
Both products were awarded VB100 Certification after being tested along with nearly 60 other security solutions. In the three different tests that formed the basis of the certification, both products achieved perfect results. Details of the VB100 comparative test can be found here.
Next up, the aforementioned products – Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8 for Windows and Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 – fought off all other competing products in complex testing by AV-Test.org. The products gained the highest scores of 17 (average – 13.2) and 17.5 (average – 13.4) respectively. Testing consisted of several trials, including those on effectiveness of malware detection and removal, the number of false positive detections, and resource usage.
