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New Look, New Blog

We recently re-launched our Website at www.golockbox.com to better reflect the companies strategy and direction.  This also means that we’ll be discontinuing our blog at this site, moving everything over to http://www.golockbox.com/blog/.  Thanks and please update your RSS feeds! –Kevin LOCKBOX SFT, the easiest to use and most secure file transfer service

The Best Tip You’ll Ever Get On Cleaning and Preventing Virus Infections

Earlier this month, the U.S. Drone Fleet was hit by a computer malware that appeared to be logging keystrokes sent to the drones.  What’s interesting about the report is that the malware has resisted several attempts by the military to cleanse the infection.  In other words, as soon as they clean off one instance of the malware, [...]

LOCKBOX SFT 1.5.9 is Released

After what seems like months and months of gathering customer feedback, code development, testing and then doing it all over again, I am happy to announce that LOCKBOX SFT version 1.5.9 is finally here! Version 1.5.9 is stuffed with a bunch of new features and improvements, but here are some of the key ones we [...]

Top 3 Things Obama Wishes He Had Known in 2010 About Data Protection – What You Can Do To Not Be the Next WikiLeaks Featured Story

This past November, an organization by the name of WikiLeaks released confidential data which documented correspondences the United States had with organizations worldwide. WikiLeaks allegedly got a hold of the data from United States Army soldier Private First Class Bradley Manning who made unauthorized copies of more than 250,000 United States confidential documents while stationed [...]

Electronic theft for the first time surpasses physical theft

This past October, Kroll Inc. reported in their Annual Global Fraud Report that electronic theft for the first time surpassed physical theft.  Amongst the hardest hit were firms providing financial services, but the applicability applies across all industries and all organizations should start looking at risk mitigation measures. Any one solution alone will not solve all your [...]

FBI warns cyber criminals to target small and medium businesses

On October 20th, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) posted to the e-scams section that cyber criminals are increasing their attacks against small and medium businesses. This is significant as often you’ll find that small and medium businesses do not have the resources to sufficiently protect their systems and data from malicious hacker attacks.  The [...]

LOCKBOX SFT Version 1.5.3 is live!

Tonight, we upgraded the production servers with v1.5.3  of the LOCKBOX bits.  This one was significant, because it added automated data classification for various standards and regulations capabilities to LOCKBOX.  Now our users can protect data according to standards and regulations with just a couple clicks!  Have HIPAA data you need to protect?  No problem. [...]

LOCKBOX Version 1.3 is going live 08/08/10!

Improvements, improvements, improvements — all thanks to great feedback from our current users.  Please note that LOCKBOX v1.3 is scheduled to go live this Sunday from 10:00 pm – midnight, so the service will be down for upgrades during this window. –Kevin

LOCKBOX Version 1.2 is going live tonight!

Tonight from 11:00 pm to 1:00 am we are scheduled to take down the production servers and upgrade them to the new Release 1.2 bits. This one is exciting from a development and quality perspective because it includes: Several of performance improvements New administrator panel features A new reporting component for sender accounts to track [...]

LOCKBOX Version 1.1 is going live tonight!

After several weeks of hard work and long hours into the morning, LOCKBOX v1.1 is scheduled to go live later tonight.  This release features: An easier and cleaner interface for both users and domain administrators Several performance upgrades. Enhancements to our proprietary account protection scheme. A subscription and payment component which will allow public users [...]

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