A thief stole a laptop
from an unsuspecting traveler in an airport lounge starting and gliding off,
unnoticed.
A few years ago,
the legitimate Retriever user of the laptop would have little chance of seeing him again.
But today, a handful of security companies,
providing software and gadgets to recover stolen laptops or at least make the
data they hold sensitive Location Tracking business inaccessible to criminals.
According to statistics from Gartner Group, which
tracks trends in the computer industry, a laptop is stolen every 53 seconds of
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The FBI noted that 97 percent of laptops are never
stolen laptop recovered, with potentially catastrophic losses for the
owners, who have lost not only the files related to work, but personal
information such as credit cards and bank information and digital family photos.
"The cost to
consumer and business a lot of money," says Robert Siciliano, a security
consultant based Information in
The computer industry, however, is now
using technology to repel thieves.
As a Lojack device
that car owners can put in their laptop recovery vehicles, track a stolen BMW or Mercedes, computer users can now
purchase software that allows them to monitor the whereabouts of their Toshiba
Satellite or Lenovo ThinkPad times a cunning swindler seizes.
Moreover, some of this software allows owners of
stolen computers to delete files remotely via satellite networks, prevention of
cyber-punks access to vital information.
"It's several
layers of protection," said Siciliano FoxNews.com.
When a computer using either Computrace
Lojack for Laptops or reported stolen by the owner, and then connected to the
internet by the thief or the person he find stolen laptop sold it to
the embedded software "agent" sends a silent signal to the monitoring
center providing critical location information.
Absolute then works with local police to recover
the computer and, if necessary, using a search warrant application and
assignment of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to quickly solve this Absolute
CEO John Livingston recover your computer ironically called "the challenges mobile security. "
The company says its recovery team, made up of
many former police officers, has close ties with more than 1,000 police
departments in the
The stealthy
software agent is said to be able to survive accidental or deliberate attempts
at removal by crooks seeking to sell the PC on the black market.
There is no external dongle for thieves to
disconnect, and the company said the software sends a signal whenever the
stolen laptop is connected to the Internet.
Another product with some of the same
functionality stolen computer tracking by
SpectorSoft Corp. is based in Vero Beach, Florida
SpectorSoft President Doug Fowler told FOXNews.com
the software was originally intended to allow parents to monitor their children
every keystroke made on computers, and the application burglar came into being
just by chance.
"It was not developed with this functionality
in mind," said Fowler. "It is used to monitor and record keystrokes
all e-mails are sent, and laptop recovery software
online chats, instant messages and activity MySpace.com. It includes a report and e-mails from the
mother of the child using the computer every hour if something dangerous rises. "
But, interestingly,
if the computer is stolen, the software continues to send
rapports.Inévitablement, cyber-crooks, or those to whom they sell the PC, go
surfing on the Internet.
06/18/2010
