Posts Tagged security
Prey – Open source computer theft protection
Posted by Webmaster in Technicians Toolkit on December 15, 2009
It is something we all fear; coming into the office in the morning to find out your workstation, or server, was stolen during the night. Or leaving your laptop unattended for mere seconds only to find out it’s disappeared. Apart from the costs of replacing your stolen computer hardware, there’s the company data that’s now out on the street. (You’ll be feeling a lot better if you encrypted that data though – we’ll be adding an article on the excellent Open Source encryption solution called TrueCrypt soon…)
Gone forever? It might be. But in case the thief does not immediately formats the hard-disk but instead uses the laptop or PC anywhere it’s connected to the internet, there’s a number of services that actually track and locate your stolen equipment, using IP addresses and more. There’s LocateMyLaptop, LocateLaptop, and so on (read the WikiPedia article on this). Trouble with all these, is that they are subscription (and European/US) based. Read the rest of this entry »
Using DVR to secure your shop or premises
Posted by Webmaster in Security & Anti-Virus on July 13, 2009
You arrive at your office early in the morning, only to find out your premises were burgled over night. Or maybe you go to the back of your store to assist a client, only to find out some unknown person helps him or herself to your products in front. There are many different reasons to look into using camera surveillance to protect the inside and outside of your office but up until now these specialised technologies have been unaffordable for most.
Fortunately, as with many technologies, full time camera surveillance is now something available to anyone, anywhere, using no more then standard PC equipment and easilly available camera hardware. Instead of using an expensive ‘time-lapse’ videorecorder, we can now digitally record any video source, from a web-cam to an wireless outside camera, straight onto a standard hard-disk using a technology called ‘DVR’, or ‘Digital Video Recording’. Read the rest of this entry »
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