Archive
Laptop Security Blog Get ready for Fall with Absolute Software’s Back-to-School special on LoJack for Laptops! Save 20% on LoJack for Laptops Standard and Premium, for Mac or PC, until September 30th!
LoJack for Laptops provides our award-winning theft recovery services. It tracks, locates, and recovers stolen computers while providing you with the ability to protect your personal information from identity theft. Learn more here!
When Delaware State University student Stefanie Strom left her dorm room for a noon class, she didn’t give any thought to leaving her HP Pavilion in her room. Returning three hours later, she was surprised to find her room open and her laptop missing.
“My laptop has everything on it – my music, my papers, tons of photos. Until it was stolen, I hadn’t realized how much I relied on it. I couldn’t even check my email!” Fortunately, before Stefanie headed off to fall semester, her father Steve Strom had obtained a subscription to Absolute’s LoJack for Laptops as protection for the computer.
Stefanie filed a police report then contacted the Absolute Theft Recovery Team. Almost immediately, Stefanie’s missing laptop contacted the Absolute Monitoring Center and reported its location – Willingboro, New Jersey. Using information sent from the computer, Dover detectives obtained arrest warrants for three individuals in Willingboro who were subsequently arrested by investigators in New Jersey. While arresting the alleged thieves, Stefanie’s computer was recovered and has now been returned to her.
According to Stefanie’s father, “Our experience with Absolute has been amazing. For a university student like my daughter, a laptop computer is more than just a computer, it’s an investment. I have no idea how Absolute works their magic in the background, but the results really say it all; Stef has her computer back and police have three very bad people in custody.”
Absolute Software announces today that it’s consumer product, LoJack for Laptops, will now be available for purchase at the McAfee online store for US customers.
The addition of LoJack for Laptops to the store offers McAfee customers a more comprehensive computer security package, all purchased at once. LoJack for Laptops tracks and recovers stolen computers. If your computer goes missing, the Absolute Theft Recovery Team will work with law enforcement to get it back.
“When consumers purchase McAfee security suites as well as Absolute’s LoJack for Laptops it gives them the protection from two common headaches that computer owners face: rampant computer and Internet threats and computer thieves,” – Todd Gebhart, executive vice president and general manager of McAfee Consumer, Mobile and Small Business
You can buy Computrace LoJack for Laptops from McAfee for $39.99 (Standard) or $59.99 (Premium). The premium version includes our service guarantee and the data delete functionality.
Absolute Software’s Computrace LoJack for Laptops is meant for home and home office computer users. You can learn more about it here, or learn more about our corporate solutions here. Mac users, don’t forget that both LoJack for Laptops and Computrace are also available for you!
Absolute Software announced a whole series of improvements to the Absolute Customer Center, which is the web-based console that enables customers to secure and manage their computers, whether this be tracking their locations or reporting devices as missing.
The Absolute Care Center, which caters to corporate Computrace customers, is now available in 10 languages, 11 if you want to be smart and count U.S. English as different than U.K. English. ;)
In addition to the language support, which expands our capabilities within the EMEA, South American and Asia-Pacific markets, you can now access enhanced security, management and usability features as part of the Customer Center. Some of the new features include:
With these changes, the Absolute Customer Center is even easier to use, with access to new security and management features that provide Absolute customers with more ways to manage and secure their IT assets.
For more information on Absolute Software and its range of computer theft recovery, data protection and IT asset management solutions, please visit www.absolute.com
SBTV recently aired a segment about Absolute Software’s consumer laptop security suite, LoJack for Laptops. The video was made at CES 2009. The host, Mario Armstrong, describes how LoJack works and how important it is to think about protecting your technology devices.
Armstrong also points his viewers to Absolute’s Computrace product for corporate customers looking for even more laptop security solutions.
Absolute Software is happy to announce that its popular consumer laptop security solution, LoJack for Laptops, will now be available to U.S. customers at Best Buy!
LoJack for Laptops will be available at all 1,010 Best Buy locations in the US as well as online at BestBuy.com. Best Buy is the largest specialty retailer of consumer electronics in the U.S. which will make it convenient for consumers to purchase the security suite when they are getting their new computer.
Best Buy will be carrying both the Premium version of Computrace LoJack for Laptops. The Premium version of the software offers the following services:
As mentioned a few months ago, US customers can also find LoJack for Laptops at Costco.
Watch the video and see Detective Quincy Burns talk about how he caught 3 career thieves and got an Absolute customer’s laptop back with the help of LoJack for Laptops.
Absolute Software has just revealed three behind-the-scenes laptop theft experiences by customers of LoJack for Laptops, its consumer laptop theft protection solution.
The three success stories include:
Here’s a quote from Jeffrey Alexander, the customer whose theft is featured in the first story:
“After thieves broke into my home and made off with my laptop, I really never expected to see it again, let alone catch the criminals who had it. I wasn’t aware at the time, but as soon as I reported the theft to my local police and Absolute’s Theft Recovery Team, an amazing investigation began. Not even four full days after I reported the theft, Absolute’s technology had led police to the home of an alleged thief where my laptop was recovered – along with four other laptops, a large quantity of drugs and cash. Not only did I get my laptop back, the investigation also resulted in four arrests! I can’t really imagine a better result.”
Learn, in each case, how the Absolute Theft Recovery team was able to work with investigators to recover the stolen laptops. In each story, the Recovery Team provides some commentary on the case and how Absolute Software can help you in similar situations.
You can read the rest of the details of these stories from the press release on Yahoo. Then head over to learn more about how LoJack for Laptops can work for you.
Also, if you’re going to be in San Francisco for MacWorld or Las Vegas for CES, come stop by the Absolute booths!!
Meet Absolute at MacWorld Expo
Location: Moscone Center, San Francisco
Booth: 325
Dates: Tuesday – Friday, January 6 – 9, 2009
Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Meet Absolute at CES
Location: Las Vegas Convention Center
Booth: 36808, South Hall
Dates: Thursday – Sunday, January
Ken Colburn (aka the Data Doctor) was on CNN a couple of weeks ago to give some simple advice on protecting your sensitive information if your computer is stolen. The most common mistakes people make that put data at risk on lost laptops, according to Ken, are: not set a password on the computer, auto-saving username and passwords, and leaving sensitive information unprotected by alternate passwords or encryption.
As you can see from the video below, Ken goes on to recommend software than can help make your computer more secure and/or recover it. He recommends LoJack for Laptops / Computrace, as well as other programs listed here.
Thanks Ken for the great coverage!
Also in the news: Microsoft will stop selling its Windows Live OneCare consumer security service and will re-release it as a free download by the end of 2009. They hope this will mean less malware. Speaking of malware, a new trojan came up a couple days ago that can send both Mac & PC users, even with patched software, to impostor websites. Ouch!
There are four quick videos on YouTube about Absolute Software’s consumer product line, LoJack for Laptops and corporate product line, Computrace. The videos each go through a common scenario about a missing laptop. This first one examines an all-too-common issue: leaving a laptop in the car.
Whether you’re just running a quick errand or are going to bed for the night, you should never leave your laptop in your car. This practice causes many major data breaches each year. If your corporate laptop does get stolen, you should never be afraid to report that. Letting your IT department know quickly can help recover your laptop, if Computrace was installed, and is important so that steps can be taken to prevent or recover from a data breach. (more…)