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Shellshock, or Bashdoor, is a security vulnerability that was recently identified in the Bash shell that is used on versions of Unix-based operating systems. See https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6271 for details. Following a comprehensive review of our technology and products, Absolute Software would like to inform customers that Absolute products are not vulnerable to this exploit. In fact, Absolute Manage  our endpoint management solution, can actually be used to identify computers within a company’s environment...

On February 12th, 2014 Kaspersky Lab released a report – Absolute Computrace Revisited. We have reviewed the report and consider Kaspersky’s analysis flawed and rejects its conclusions. We are unable to determine how Kaspersky was able to reach the conclusions they provided. This is a very similar scenario that was raised at the Black Hat security conference in 2009. Our response in 2009 is still posted on our website...

Today Absolute Software announced it has acquired the assets of privately-held Palisade Systems, a data security and data loss prevention (DLP) provider. The Palisade technology delivers enterprise data security solutions for web monitoring and filtering, data monitoring and DLP, based on Palisade’s patented PacketSure Data Security Platform. Palisade Systems solutions enable healthcare, corporate, government and education organizations to monitor and secure sensitive and proprietary intellectual property, and to prevent...

The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) recently decided to take a stand on smartphone safety with the launch of a new website, Protect Your Data-Protect Yourself. With over 26 million mobile phones in Canada, at least half of them a smartphone, the CWTA is taking steps to help combat security issues on mobile phones. The new website fetters tips on how you can protect yourself from device theft and...