Key points:

• The encryption is hardware-based 256-bit AES validated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology  to meet the Level 3 criteria of FIPS 140-2. AES is the Advanced Encryption Standard adopted by the U.S. government.
• The IronKey goes the extra mile past the 256-bit encryption standard by using the FIPS 140-2 Level Three criteria that make it difficult to physically tamper with the IronKey, including features such its rugged metal casing and sealed internal components.
• The system is safe from malware or cold-boot attacks because the drive does not export AES encryption keys to the host PC. If anyone tries a brute-force attack based on password guesses, after 10 incorrect passwords all encrypted data is erased.

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The theft of the confidential information (in this case, email addresses) can enable hackers to use phishing to trick the customer into revealing further confidential information.  In this case, this data could reveal where the customers, then the hacker could sucessfully direct the customer to a a website which looks like a legitimate banking site, but in truth, is not.

Practical steps you can take include checking new emails addresses against previous emails from the bank, warning family members (especially younger ones) about the dangers, and checking links in emails before you click on them.

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“As the new decade opens, cybercrime is diverging down a different path as cyber attacks move beyond the financial services industry and malware makes a shift from targeting consumer desktops to employees in the enterprise,” states the 2011 Cybercrime Trends Report.

What does this mean exactly? The volume of mobile downloads is expected to rise in 2011 to 25 billion applications, creating more of an opportunity for mobile devices, used by employees of major organisations with access to huge amounts of confidential data, could mean an easy back door for malware to reach into corporate enterprises.

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Complete with screenshots, the Secure Active review provides a step by step look at how the Enterprise works.

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