Mobile Active Defense, The Smartphone Security Company, was recognized with the prestigious Rookie Security Company of the Year award by SC Magazine for 2011 on Feb. 15, 2011 at the SC Awards Gala, held in conjunction with the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco.

The Rookie Security Company of the Year award validates Mobile Active Defense's outstanding achievement through their Mobile Enterprise & Compliance Security (MECS) Server Solution in IT security and its exceptional security products. The SC Awards, now in its 14th year, is the de facto recognition for all those security providers and individuals fighting to protect global security.

According to Illena Armstrong, Editor-in-Chief, SC Magazine, "The SC Magazine Awards U.S. was organized to honor the professionals, companies and products that help fend off the myriad security threats confronted in today's corporate world."

Mobile Active Defense and other 2011 Excellence Awards winners were chosen by the industry's top security experts - representing the wide distribution of SC Magazine readers and their breadth of knowledge and experience in the information security industry.

"We are extremely honored to receive this prestigious award," said Rob Smith, CTO of Mobile Active Defense, upon receiving the news. "Smartphones, pads and tablets represent a new paradigm of compliance challenges for the enterprise security professional - old methods don't work. Although MAD is a rookie company this award validates our strategy and approach to securing these devices as the best protection on the market. We are already seeing competitors and other players trying to mimic our approach and patent-pending techniques and we predict many more to come to market this year. Many mobile solutions use MDM and sandboxing, but that's not real security or compliance. Our customers keep telling us good is not good enough. I need the best mobile device security I can get. Mobile Active Defense is the first product to deliver true security to non-BlackBerry devices."

"Mobile Active Defense represents one of the industry's leading lights," said SC Magazine Editor-in-Chief Illena Armstrong. "Moving into 2011, our judges recognize that companies like Mobile Active Defense are helping them meet evolving security challenges."

Now in its 14th year, the information security industry's most prominent accolade, the annual SC Awards U.S., showcases the best solutions, services and professionals while recognizing achievement and technical excellence. SC Magazine distinguishes the achievements of the security professionals in the trenches, the innovations happening in the vendor and service provider communities, and the passionate work of government, commercial and nonprofits - all working to help improve global security. For more information and a detailed list of categories and winners, please visit http://www.scmagazineus.com/awards.


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An increase in the usage of web applications is directly related to an increase in the number of security incidents for them. Today, web application security is finally getting more well-known consideration. The daily discovery of new web vulnerabilities and attacks confirms that web applications are not secure. This attention comes with the benefit of it being addressed as a higher priority now. Web application security is a branch of information security that deals particularly with security of websites and web application. Stories about exploits that compromise sensitive data frequently mention culprits such as “cross-site scripting,” “SQL injection,” and “buffer overflow.” These programs create so many risks for web site application such as User accounts being stolen through session hijacking or through the theft of username and password combinations, the ability for attackers to track your visitors’ web browsing performance infringing on their privacy, Abuse of credentials and trust, Link injections, Keystroke logging of your site’s visitors. It may seem like impossible to keep your site away from attackers, but if you can think like an attacker you can block his entry before he gets there. This following guide introduces you to popular Web application attacks and provides tips and techniques to keeping the hackers out of your websites.

Keep an eye on your file permissions
Double check your file permissions: if you have given someone permission to read or write a file, and you both have Fling accounts, then their CGI programs have the same permissions, and a small programming error could give everyone in the world access to your files. It may be helpful to use the “File Security” option from within the seas accounts management site to reset all file settings to only legible by you. Be careful, if you include your website in the reset, it will make it inaccessible via a web browser.


Restrict access to trusted users
It’s usually a bad idea to allow people without accounts to post to your forum, or blog. Spammers and other nasty users often exploit open web applications for their own uses at the expense of you and your legitimate users. In addition, don’t allow people to create accounts on their own without your explicit permission. In addition to unsuitable content, people can upload programs or commands and then trick your program or other users into executing the commands. You need to only allow submissions from trusted users.

Separate dynamic content from static content
If you have a static portion of your website that doesn’t need dynamic scripting, keep it outside your dynamic directories (dynamic, and wiki). It’s also a good idea to save user uploaded files in non-dynamic directories to avoid a malicious user being able to execute code on the server. All data submitted by a user should always be vetted before you do anything with it. Scan files for viruses before accessing or allowing users to download them

Some popular application like WebDefend is an advanced web application firewall that offers customized, behavior-based security for each protected application. It has some great features like inbound and outbound traffic analysis through the patent-pending and bi-directional Exit Control traffic analysis engine that recognize a specific type of information, such as credit card or Social Security numbers. Even it identifies problems and trends in your site URL and session levels in your web application surroundings with out-of-the-box real time views covering performance metrics such as transaction time, error rate, availability and HTTP and Https throughput. It has also SSL attack detection capability which replicates and decrypts SSL traffic streams without terminating the original encrypted session.

Security has always been a holistic solution, requiring all players and systems to work in concert to form a good defense. The current use of most web application security testing tools is still focused on the access information security professional but still we are a fair distance from holding a developer. If you are a online business man and you have a website by which you are earning some money then you should follow these above tips and keep your website safe and get more customer.


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These days we rely and trust our computers to safely store many things that we consider valuable. But virus breaks your trust even if you don’t do anything with your computer. A virus enters to your system when you visit a website containing malware. The truth of the matter is that no particular sites out there have harmful malware on them and most times the site owners don’t even know there is a problem. Even if you do not clicked any link but still some of the worst programs like   protect shield enters to your system. This malware is designed to look just like anti-malware software. Protect Shield is a dangerous cyber threat which is known to be spread through browser hijacking techniques with a help of Trojans.  Mostly it manages to get on board unnoticed and then starts its saleable movement based on fake system scanners and alerts.

At the beginning an advertisement appears on your screen pretending to be an online antimalware scanner. This application states that your system is virus infected once this advertisement finishes. Then a message appears on the screen stating that you need to install Protect Shield as it is the only way to remove this infection from your system. Then it starts a fake scan on your screen without your permission. After finishing scan It shows a lot of infection in your system. Different alerts keep appearing in your system stating the being there of various infections inside your system. Also it alerts notifying that your personal data inside the computer is being shifted to various remote locations. Also as suggested by this malware program the only way that these infections in your system can be fixed as suggested by this program is only and only when you buy the full version of Protect Shield. This is it how this malware try to sell you its full version.

All of these issues can be prevented with the use of security software on your computer. As this program damages files, folders, permissions and registry keys without our permission, a solid application program is needed to fix all the damages caused by it to our system. If you have updated anti virus then you are protected otherwise If your computer has been infiltrated with this malware remove it fast with a system and registry scanner.

If you want to remove it manually then follow this

1. Press CTRL+ALT+Del keys together and stop all Protect Shield process in the windows task manager.
2. Uninstall Protect Shield program from windows Add/Remove Programs.
3. Open windows registry. Find and Remove all Protect Shield Registry Files using regedit.exe command
4. Perform a Windows search using term Protect Shield and remove all the detected files.

It does not always guarantee complete deletion of the Protect Shield, since some files might be concealed or may automatically reanimate themselves later. So it is recommended that you should use automatic removal software to ensure that your system is safe. A solid program like Reimage you can use to get rid of this type of issues. Reimage not only removes the infection present in your system but it also prevents our computer from getting infected by the same Trojan again. Reimage works by correcting the damage thereby restoring the performance of the PC.


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Today rising internet users are facing a lot of problems because of hackers around the world. Malware and virus is most common cause for infecting computers these days. Fixing malware infestations can be very complex and time unbearable. Many “malware ailments” are “hidden” in the computer’s most “critical” sections. Any mistake can cause permanent damage. To prevent from these types of problems use the wise way would be use “web proxy” which is “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Web proxy is a program that allows users to browse the Web while keeping their identity a secret. By using a proxy, users can prevent third parties such as children, parents and employers from investigative their browsing history, while at the same time surfing the Web in nearly its entirety. Even it can obstruct hacker attempts to steal personal data.

When internet user visits a web proxy site such as Proxy.org, The user then enters the URL of the website he wants to visit into the proxy website’s search bar. That website is then displayed to the user. Since the proxy website made the request, the users own information (computer name, IP address, location, etc.) is not displayed. Thus, the user can surf anonymously. Here web proxy performs internet object cache function by storing requested internet objects, i.e., data available via HTTP and FTP protocols on a system poisoned closer to the recipient than the site the data is originated from. Here closer means increased path reliability speed or both. Web browsers can then use the local proxy cache to speed up access and external reduce bandwidth utilization. When setting up web proxy, make sure it serves only your clients, and is not misused as relay. Some web proxies block JavaScript and “referrers” (identifies a visitor’s origin) to establish secure surfing. A web proxy can unblock websites and bypass filters. It allows you to secure you privacy such as you IP address but also give you access to certain places that may have been block to your networks. With the help of a proxy you will able to unblock those websites that have been blocked with your network’s provider, as this will enable you to surf the internet using another server with another IP address.

There are a number of different web proxy anonymity levels. Higher levels use “cloaked” and “encrypted” techniques – encoding the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and establishing Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Access to provide for safe web surfing. A web proxy is undetectable; use hidden identification to send anonymous e-mails.

The online criminals are very much competent of installing proxies. Of course the purpose is to snoop upon the dataflow between the client machine and the web. The proxy operator can imprison and examine all the accessed pages as well as submitted forms so once if an unauthorized proxy has been detected the password of all the online services such as webmail, banking etc, should immediately be changed.

Protect your privacy. Make sure that your web activities cannot be tracked. Use a web proxy so that you can weaken into web traffic and not be inimitably recognized. Malware cannot assault you, if it cannot locate you.

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