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I’m pleased to announce that Firefox 4 (currently in beta) has a new feature called Firefox Panorama. This could be the killer feature of the popular browser that could win back some power users from Google Chrome.

Not all of the ideas that the Mozilla Firefox Team had indicated previously have made it into the official version of Firefox Panorama, but the core feature of being able to group tabs together and having an OS-like interface to quickly jump between tab groups is now going to be part of Firefox 4.

Aza Raskin has a detailed blog post in which he lays out how and why the Firefox team developed Panorama, including the basic design principles.

Some of the design issues he mentioned included:

• Harness the power of spatial memory
• Seeing is remembering
• Minimize required interactivity
• Remove distractions: out of sight, out of mind

Here’s a short video clip in which Aza Raskin explains what you’ll see in the new Firefox Panorama:

It was said last year that 2010 is a big year for Microsoft because we’re waiting to see which way the tide will turn on enterprise adoption of Windows 7. Lots of companies are on the fence about the migration, and many others have expressed the interest to upgrade from Windows XP to 7, but could ditch that idea if skipping Windows 7 develops into a corporate best practice, the same way skipping Vista did.

According to new data revealed by Microsoft, the enterprise upgrade to Windows 7 does not have much momentum so far in 2010.

At Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference 2010 in Washington, D.C., Microsoft Windows corporate vice president Tammi Reller said that 74% of business computers are still running Windows XP. She also said that the average age of the PC is now 4.4 years old, which is the highest number that Microsoft has seen in over a decade.

Naturally, Microsoft spins this as a huge opportunity for the company to make a lot of money by selling copies of Windows 7 to these slow upgraders. CEO Steve Ballmer predicted on Monday that Microsoft would sell 350 million copies of Windows 7 licenses by the end of 2010.

But, if you read between the lines, part of the message here is that Windows 7 adoption has not taken hold yet, and Microsoft is still hustling to convince businesses to upgrade.

Original article by Jason Hiner of Tech Republic

When you talk to IT pros and business managers about tablet computers, the first question they tend to ask is, “Looks cool, but what I do with it?” This conversation has been happening for a decade since Microsoft’s pen-based Tablet PC was introduced at Comdex 2001. There, Bill Gates declared, “Within five years I predict it will be the most popular form of PC sold in America.”

That turned out to be a false prophesy. Microsoft’s tablet never attracted a mass audience, although it has gained some niche adoption in industries such as health care, field service, and hospitality.

However, the Apple iPad and the new breed of slate computers that are hitting the market in 2010 are looking to revive the tablet concept. They are doing it with a lighter, thinner form factor that uses a touch-based interface rather than pen computing.

It’s way too early to predict whether the new tablets will be successful, but it’s easy to imagine some of the usage scenarios for them in the business world. Here are five to consider:

5. Replace 200-page business documents

Large business documents waste a lot of paper. Most of these tend to be legal documents that people never read from cover-to-cover, but when you have meetings to discuss any kind of major business deal the piles of paper can quickly get out of hand.

While some of these types of documents have already moved to PDF, that requires people to bring a laptop into the meeting to read the PDF. That can sometimes stifle the intimacy of the meeting. Slate computers that can lay flat on the table could be more conducive to an open discussion. There’s also a security implication. If a company has sensitive documents that it wants to share with a potential partner, but doesn’t want to email the documents, a company-owned slate computer could be used to display the big documents for guests to flip through, but all the data on the slate would remain in company hands.

4. Business reading and audiobooks for road warriors

Frequent business travelers often have a briefcase full of newspapers, magazines, and books that they want to catch up during a trip. Plus, they also usually carry an iPod with a few audiobooks and/or podcasts on it. The new tablet computers could offer the opportunity to consolidate this media experience into a single device, if newspapers follow the lead of The New York Times and magazines follow the lead of Sports Illustrated. Of course, the digitization process is already in full swing for books, with ebook apps for Amazon and Barnes & Noble and Apple’s iBookstore.

3. “Back of the Napkin” sketches

With his “Back of the Napkin” concept, Dan Roam has successfully convinced a lot of companies and professionals to draw simple pictures to help solve problems and sell ideas. However, integrating these pictures into standard business processes and communications isn’t always as simple as it should be. It’s easy to draw these pictures on a whiteboard, but then you have to take a picture of the whiteboard if you want to circulate it. With built-in drawing tools like the ones in the iPad, it’s about to get a lot easier to quickly draw simple pictures and circulate them digitally.

2. Small-scale presentations

While projectors and slide presentations have their place – especially for large meetings – there is also the opportunity to bring those same types of powerful visuals to smaller meetings, even as small as 1-on-1s. With a slate computer in hand, an employee could go to another employee’s office and quickly show off a PowerPoint file, a  Back of the Napkin sketch, a set of images, or several product mockups on a dev server. This kind of show-and-tell could streamline idea-sharing and ramp up innovation. While all of this is possible with a laptop, the slim form factor of slates lend themselves to better portability and show-and-tell.

1. Conference room computing

One of the common behaviors in many of today’s corporate conference rooms is to come in, sit down, and lay down your smartphone on the table. Smartphones have become our way to stay connected, send short messages, and look up information while in the middle of a meeting. The one thing you can’t really do with a smartphone is to easily share any information you found with the rest of the people in the meeting, because the smartphones screens are so small.

That’s why slate computers could become the conference room PCs of choice. People could use them to access documents, emails, images, and illustrations needed for the meeting. A presenter could send a PowerPoint file before a meeting and attendees could access the PPT from their personal slates during the meeting, and make their own notes on it. And, employees in the meeting could share visuals with the rest of the people in the meeting just by pulling up the data on-screen and then flipping the slate around.

Original article written by Jason Hiner of Tech Republic

Are you looking for a mail server but not ready for Microsoft Exchange? Well maybe VPOP3 is the solution!

VPOP3 is a fully-featured Windows Email Server. It is designed to be simple to configure and use, but flexible enough to fulfill most users’ requirements.

VPOP3 will work with any Internet email account which supports POP3 or SMTP methods for incoming mail, and SMTP for outgoing mail. It will also work without an Internet email account at all, using direct SMTP email receiving and sending.

VPOP3 will work with any type of Internet connectivity – from a dial-up modem, through ISDN and broadband xDSL connections to permanent leased lines.

VPOP3 includes many features such as:

Virus Scanning

VPOP3 integrates with the avast! for VPOP3, or Sophos SAVI virus scanning engines to detect and remove viruses from your incoming and outgoing email

Spam / Content Filtering

VPOP3 has a built-in content filter to detect spam before it reaches your users. This content filter is highly customisable so you can use it to perform custom content filtering as well. The spam filter uses a blended approach to detecting spam, so many different methods are used together such as DNS blacklists, Bayesian statistical filtering, heuristic methods etc. This gives a much better result than more basic filters which may rely on just one or other of these methods.

Standards Compliant

VPOP3 is fully POP3 / SMTP / LDAP compliant so it will work with any POP3 / SMTP email client, such as Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express, Eudora, Mozilla Thunderbird etc.

In addition VPOP3 Enterprise is IMAP4 compliant as well, allowing more flexibility, such as shared message folders, hot desking, mobile users etc.

Remote Administration

VPOP3 is fully manageable from anywhere on the network (or Internet if you wish) using its fully remoteable web based management console. This allows you to manage the software from any computer with a web browser, or even a PDA. The web management system is platform independent, so will work with Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla Firefox etc.

WebMail

VPOP3 comes with a full WebMail server, so you can access your mail using a web browser from anywhere. You can read and send your email messages, view the VPOP3 address book etc through any modern web browser.

Message Archiving

VPOP3 has a built-in message archive store & retrieval system, so you can configure it to store all incoming and outgoing messages in a central store (with the option to archive parts off, as necessary, to removeable storage), and perform searches on this archive to find past messages easily and quickly.

Mailing List Server

VPOP3 has a built in mailing list server so you can manage your customer email shots or discussion mailing lists or internal distribution lists all through VPOP3 without needing any further software.

Automatic Responses

VPOP3 can automatically respond to email messages which arrive for specified users, so you can easily set up ‘vacation autoresponders’ or helpdesk acknowledgement emails etc.

Multiple ISP support

VPOP3 can collect mail from as many different ISP email accounts as you wish. It will work with incoming SMTP and POP3 mail accounts at the same time, and can distribute mail from several ‘catch-all’ POP3 accounts with no problems at all.

For further information about VPOP3 and to download a free trial click on the link below:

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Do you know whether your computers are actively using IPv6 or not? Better check, as the bad guys probably already know.

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Microsoft began enabling IPv6 protocol by default with the release of Vista. That policy continued with Windows Server 2008 and will with Windows 7. Apple, Linux, and Solaris are also shipping their latest distributions with IPv6 enabled.

Before continuing, I need to explain something. We all understand that IPv6 is important. I even mustered enough courage with Joe Klein’s (director of IPv6 security at Command Information) gracious help to write several articles about it. So that’s no longer on my radar.

What’s on my radar

I’m not sure why, but computers are now shipping with IPv6 enabled. My guess would be that most OS developers figured IPv6 networks would be more predominate by now. Or that there’s no down side to enabling IPv6, so why wait.

I do know of one Microsoft service that requires IPv6. It’s called Windows Meeting Space. It uses the peer-to-peer framework and IPv6 to setup ad hoc networks automatically.

What numbers are we talking about

The number of computers running IPv6 is staggering. Carolyn Duffy Marsan in a NetworkWorld article quoted Joe Klein as saying:

“We’re probably talking about 300 million systems that have IPv6 enabled by default. We see this as a big risk.”

What I’m wondering, is how many of the people using the 300 million computers realize IPv6 is enabled or know what it means?

What’s being exploited

In a concurrent article, Marsan asked experts what they considered the most serious issues of running a dual stack comprised of IPv6 and IPv4. Here’s what they said:

• Rogue IPv6 traffic: Attackers realize that most network administrators aren’t monitoring IPv6 traffic or they can’t. Because existing firewalls, IDS, or network management tools aren’t IPv6-aware. Therefore, an attacker can send malicious traffic to any computer running IPv6 and it will get through.
• IPv6 tunneling: Protocols such as Teredo and Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) encapsulate IPv6 packets inside IPv4 packets. The morphed packets can easily pass through IPv4 firewalls and network address translation (NAT) equipment, defeating perimeter defenses purposed to sense and drop IPv6 packets.
• Rogue IPv6 equipment: Because IPv6 uses auto-configuration, an attacker can gain considerable control over computers running IPv6, simply by placing a rogue device capable of issuing IPv6 IP addresses on the network under attack. To make matters worse the device could have router attributes. Forcing all traffic to transit through it, allowing attackers to snoop, modify, or drop traffic at their whim.
• Built-in ICMP and multicast: Unlike IPv4, IPv6 requires ICMP and multicast traffic. That fact will significantly change how administrators approach network security. Right now, blocking ICMP and multicast traffic on IPv4 networks is the accepted practice. That will no longer work and complicated filtering of ICMP and multicast packets will be required to maintain some semblance of security.

Leave IPv6 enabled or not

Whether to leave IPv6 “enabled or not” is about as clear as mud. There’s the yes camp and there’s the no camp with the whole gray area in between littered with other opinions. I thought I’d let the experts introduced in Marsan’s article present their views:

Tim LeMaster: Director of systems engineering for Juniper’s federal group mentions:

“If you’re not prepared for IPv6, then the prudent thing to do is not to allow it into your network,” LeMaster says. “But you shouldn’t be blocking all IPv6 traffic for the next five years. You should only block it until you have a policy and understand the threats.”

Lisa Donnan: Vice president of advanced technology solutions at Command Information has a different viewpoint:

“We don’t recommend that you block IPv6 traffic. We are recommending that you do an audit and find out how many IPv6 devices and applications are on your network. If you have IPv6 traffic on your network, then you’ve got to plan, train, and implement IPv6.”

Sheila Frankel: Computer scientist in the Computer Security Division of the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) expresses a middle-ground viewpoint:

“Companies need to acquire a minimal level of expertise in IPv6, which will help protect them against threats. The other thing they should do is to take their outward-facing servers, those that are external to the corporation’s firewalls, and enable IPv6 on them. That way, customers from Asia with IPv6 addresses will be able to reach these servers and their own people will acquire expertise in IPv6. This will be a first step in the process.”

Frankel continues:

“IPv6 is coming. The best way is to face it head on and to decide you’re going to do it in the most secure manner possible.”

As soon as I started receiving computers with IPv6 enabled, I turned the protocol off. My rational was why take a chance when it’s not necessary. Apparently, my choice is paying off, as my client’s computers aren’t vulnerable to these new exploit vectors.

That works for me for the time being at least. I don’t pretend to think my choice will work for everyone. From the above opinions, the only thing I do know for sure is that getting up-to-speed on IPv6 is important. As that knowledge will help you determine what’s in your network and computer systems best interest.

How to disable IPv6

Thankfully, disabling IPv6 is quite easy. I’ve provided links to Web sites that explain the process for several of the operating systems, if you’re so inclined:

Disable IPv6 in Linux

Disable IPv6 in Windows Vista

Disable IPv6 in Mac OS X

Final thoughts

This is definitely a thorny subject and full of surprises. Just like every new and untested technological change. I can accept that. What’s hard to accept is that security once again appears not to be a main consideration. I hope it’s just a temporary oversight.

Original Article By Michael Kassner for Tech Republic:

IPv6: Oops – it’s on by default

Reading the many blogs etc here are some of the information that is currently in the wild:

* There will be two major release dates: August 6th and October 22nd.
* TechNet/MSDN subscribers will be able to download the English language version of Windows 7 Release To Manufacturing on August 6th, other languages will be available by October 1st.
* General availability (GA) for everyone else will be on October 22nd.
* Microsoft Partner Program Gold/Certified Members will be able to get the English language Release To Manufacturing via the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) Portal on August 16th. Other languages to be available by October 1st.
* Microsoft Action Pack will see the English language Release To Manufacturing by August 23rd, and remaining languages by October 1st.
* Volume License (VL) customers with an existing Software Assurance (SA) license will be able to download Windows 7 RTM in English starting August 7th through the Volume License Service Center (VLSC). Other languages will go online within a couple of weeks.
* Volume License customers without an existing SA license will have to wait until September 1st.
* OEMs will start seeing RTM images about two days after the RTM code is finalized, so that could be by the end of the week.

Last week, Google announced plans to release its own operating system, one that will presumably compete with Microsoft. This week, Microsoft responds with a challenge of its own.

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Last week Google announced plans to release its own operating system, one based on their Cloud technology, and one intended to compete with Microsoft’s dominance in the operating system market. It generated a lot of comments in the discussion section, with mostly a wait and see attitude towards how it will affect those in a user support position.

This week, Microsoft responds with a challenge of its own. The Financial Times (on-line) reports in its headline, “Microsoft to step up Google battle.”

“Microsoft is set to broaden its battle with Google this week,” reports the Financial Times, “as it pushes ahead with online versions of some of its core software, including final plans for a ‘cloud’ operating system designed to extend Windows to the internet. The news comes days after Google took aim at Microsoft with the announcement of a PC operating system of its own, dubbed Chrome OS.”

“The rival moves point to an intensification of the battle between the technology giants, with Google trying to extend its internet platform to PCs, and Microsoft moving in the opposite direction. While Google’s PC operating system is not due to appear in new computers until the second half of 2010, Microsoft’s cloud operating system will be launched formally this year.”

I don’t know about you, but I’m looking at this from two perspectives.

First of all, as those who provide support to end users, we always try to remain a step ahead of the next generation of technology. We’d like to know what’s coming. We have to decide whether or not we’ll support it, and if so, what’s the best course of action.

But secondly, I must admit, I’m watching this from the seat of a spectator, not unlike at a sporting event. We see on the field before us, two titans of technology battling each other for market dominance. We all know that a lot of technology support professionals would like to see Microsoft knocked down a few notches and are critical for its reluctance to join the open source movement. Google, on the other hand, has gotten just about as big as Microsoft, but in their own niche of technology. Google, for instance, not only dominates the search engine market, but it has actually transformed itself from a noun to a verb – something not many companies have managed to pull off. (Xerox, of course, comes to mind.)

What’s your take on this Google versus Microsoft challenge? How does it affect your role as a user support pro?

And will Google eventually become a technology demon like Microsoft has become (at least in the eyes of some)? How big will it have to get, and how much of a market share will it have to gain before technology pros want to see Google knocked down a few notches? After all, the public loves rags to riches stories, like Google, but then again, they also love to see the mighty and powerful fall.

Article written by Joe Rosberg of Tech Republic

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/helpdesk/?p=825&tag=nl.e019

In a series of poll questions, IT professionals made it quite clear that they were not interested in migrating away from Windows XP. What do the results mean for your organization?

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A couple of weeks ago, Tech Republic asked a series of poll questions about Microsoft Windows XP. That single blog post lead to close to 300 separate posts in the corresponding discussion thread. The poll results are very informative and definitely give us an indication about where the TechRepublic membership stands with regard to a potential operating system migration.

To put it politely and succinctly — most IT professionals are not looking forward to it. In fact, many are actively and passionately against the very idea.

Let’s take a deeper look at the results and see what we can glean with regard to the future of Windows XP.

Results

Figure A

Obviously there is a large installed base of Windows XP deployed worldwide.

Figure B

It looks like the real loser in this poll question is Windows Vista. The vast majority of respondents are either waiting for Windows 7 or planning to keep Windows XP.

Another interesting data point is the lack of consideration for Linux or Mac OS X. Despite what vocal and passionate proponents of those operating systems may advocate, IT professionals in the business space are only interested in Windows — at least for right now.

Figure C

Backing up the previous result is this question regarding which operating systems have been tested as a possible replacement for XP. A decent percentage of IT professionals have tested the potential of Linux, but the majority of respondents are still squarely in the Windows camp.

Figure D

While legacy applications are definitely a major consideration, they don’t seem to be the major obstacle to operating system migration.

Figure E

This is the first poll question to deal with the actual practical deployment of a new operating system. It is abundantly obvious that many IT professionals are not ready to implement a migration. Unless there is a catalyst that cannot be ignored, Windows XP is going to remain the primary operating system for many organizations for as long as it is feasible.

The discussion thread following the first blog post backs the response to this question. Many posters in the discussion were determined to keep Windows XP as absolutely long as they can.

Figure F

The two primary reasons Windows XP looks destined to remain a factor for some time to come is that it works and that Vista is not perceived as a viable replacement. Without some sort of catalyst to force a migration, the deployment of any operating system besides XP will be slow and methodical.

Format G

The concept of a methodical rollout is confirmed by the results of this poll question. Most IT professionals have no plans to roll out a company-wide deploy of a new operating system. Rather, new operating systems, if they are to be introduced at all into an organization, are mostly likely going to trickle in with new equipment.

Figure H

Once again, we see in the response to this poll question that operating systems other than some form of Windows are not really being considered. The implication is that IT professionals have very little interest in migrating away from Windows XP no matter what other operating system you ask them to consider.

Bottom line

Looking over the poll results, it leaves little doubt that the general consensus is against operating system migration until it is absolutely necessary. Windows XP is working just fine for many and, so far, no feasible or practical reason has presented itself as a catalyst that will drive IT professionals to consider a change. It looks like Windows XP is going to be around for longer than Microsoft may have suspected.

Original Article > IT professionals will not drop Windows XP quietly (if ever)

Learn about the many options you can leverage to increase security of the Apple iPhone.

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) is well -known for developing security benchmarks for operating systems, applications, network devices, and now the Apple iPhone. I’ve read the iPhone benchmark and felt that TechRepublic’s 10 Things format would be the perfect way for me to pass along some of their advice. The complete document can be found at the CIS benchmark portal. So let’s make sure your iPhone is secure.

1: Make sure firmware is up to date

Like computer operating system software, keeping the iPhone’s firmware up to date is important in reducing the vulnerability footprint. The latest version of firmware is 2.2.1. Select Settings | General | About to determine what version the iPhone is using. If the iPhone is using an older version, follow the steps below to update the firmware:

1. Connect the iPhone to the computer.
2. Open iTunes.
3. Select iPhone under Devices in the source list.
4. Select Check For Update.
5. Select Download And Install.

2: Disable Wi-Fi when not in use

This is self-apparent, yet important enough to include in the list. Most people automatically disable Wi-Fi to conserve the battery. But knowing that disabling Wi-Fi eliminates an attack vector may be added incentive to turn Wi-Fi on only when needed. Use the following steps to disable Wi-Fi:

1. Tap Settings.
2. Tap Wi-Fi.
3. Turn Wi-Fi off.

3: Disallow automatic association to networks

By default, the iPhone retains association settings of the Wi-Fi networks it connects to, which allows the phone to automatically reconnect when within range. Automatic association isn’t recommended, as it’s easy to spoof trusted networks. Still, disallowing automatic association is kind of a pain, as doing so requires you to enter the passkey each time. I’ll leave this one up to you. To prevent automatic association use the following steps:

1. Tap Settings.
2. Select Wi-Fi (make sure Wi-Fi is on).
3. Tap the blue arrow of the network to forget.
4. Select Forget This Network.

4: Turn Bluetooth off when not being used

Features that make life easier for the user tend to make it easier for bad guys as well. Bluetooth is one such feature; it allows many conveniences, such as the use of wireless headsets and sharing information between phones. Yet attackers can also use it to Bluejack or Bluesnarf a phone.

For some reason, the iPhone isn’t set up to just turn off discovery. So the only way to prevent unwanted discovery and associations is to use the following steps to turn Bluetooth off:

1. Pick Settings.
2. Tap General.
3. Tap Bluetooth.
4. Turn Bluetooth off.

5: Disable location services until needed

Turning location services off doesn’t immediately increase security; it just prevents the user’s location from being published. I personally think disabling the service is a good idea for two reasons. First, it’s a significant battery drain. Second, disabling the service isn’t an inconvenience. It’s simple to turn the location service back on from within the application that needs positioning information. If so desired, follow the steps below to disable location services:

1. Tap Settings.
2. Tap General.
3. Turn Location Services off.

6: Set a passcode

Setting a passcode definitely increases the security of the iPhone. It makes it harder for someone to gain access to the iPhone because the phone automatically locks after a user-determined amount of inactivity. Setting a passcode is also required for feature seven to work. Use the following steps to set a passcode:

1. Select Settings.
2. Select General.
3. Tap Passcode Lock.
4. Enter a four-digit passcode.
5. Re-enter the same passcode.

7: Erase data if too many wrong passcodes are entered

After 10 wrong passcode attempts, user settings and any data stored on the iPhone will be erased if this setting is enabled. It’s a valuable feature because a four-digit passcode of just numbers will eventually be discovered, and this option ensures that any sensitive information will not get into the wrong hands. Use the following steps to turn erase data on:

1. Select Settings.
2. Tap General.
3. Choose Passcode Lock.
4. Turn Erase Data on.

8: Erase data before returning or repairing the iPhone

To some, this may be apparent, but many people don’t even think about removing sensitive data before selling or sending their phone in for repair. Use the following steps to prevent others from accessing your personal information:

1. Select Settings.
2. Tap General.
3. Choose Reset.
4. Select Erase All Contents And Settings.

9: Disable SMS preview

Even when the iPhone is locked, it’s still possible to preview a recently received text message. I immediately disabled SMS preview on my iPhone, as I do not want my text messages visible when the phone is locked. If you agree, use the following steps to turn off SMS preview:

1. Select Settings.
2. Tap General.
3. Choose Passcode Lock.
4. Turn Show SMS Preview off.

10: Disable JavaScript and plug-ins in Safari

Because the iPhone uses a fully functional Web browser, it is susceptible to all the same JavaScript and plug-in exploits that plague normal computers. I recommend disabling JavaScript and plug-ins, but doing so breaks certain Web page characteristics. It’s yet another balancing act between security and usability. If you want to err on the side of security, use the following steps to disable both:

1. Select Settings.
2. Tap Safari.
3. Turn JavaScript off.
4. Turn Plug-Ins off.

Final thoughts

Most of the above security enhancements are intuitive, but I’ve found that unless prodded, most people don’t take advantage of them. I can’t in good conscious say that applying all of these enhancements is the only way; that’s going to be up to you. I just wanted to make sure everyone knew what was available. I also want to thank CIS again for its diligence in preparing the iPhone security benchmark.

Original article published by Michael Kassner of Tech Republic

10 Ways To Secure The Apple iPhone