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McAfee Security Innovations Binds Your Android Devices Together To Prevent Loss

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McAfee is a name that many associate with security and their famous anti-virus programs. The company doesn't just make apps to keep your data safe and your computers malware-free. McAfee Security Innovations is an Android app that is a versatile set of security features for both your data and your device. The app has a ‘Smart Perimeter’ feature that allows you to connect multiple Android devices over Wi-Fi and should the two connected devices be separated by more than 30meters, either because you forgot your device somewhere or because it got stolen, an alarm sounds on both of them. Additionally, the screen gets locked and can only be unlocked with the four digit PIN that you set up when adding devices. Apart from this, McAfee Security Innovations has a ‘Data Vault’ that, with McAfee Security installed, lets you securely backup files. Lastly, it has a QR code scanner that checks if the link hidden in a QR code is safe or not before opening it in the browser. Read More

Remotely Track & Control Your Lost Or Stolen iPhone With inner

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Anyone who takes security seriously, or has had a mobile phone snatched from them in the past, might already be using apps like Prey on their smartphone. Prey is arguably the most popular anti-theft solution available on iOS and Android but if you own a jailbroken iDevice, there are also some less feature-rich yet effective alternatives to the Prey app out there. ICaughtU might not track your stolen device for you, but it can be used to get a photo of the thief. There is certainly a lot of potential in Cydia apps when it comes to countering phone theft, and inner demonstrates that quite clearly. This app has a ton of features, which make sure that every base is covered in case your phone gets stolen. inner can spring into action automatically when an unauthorized SIM is placed in the device, and also allows you to send commands to your phone remotely using the app’s desktop companion. Read More

Easy Finder Is An Android Anti-Theft App With Remote Contacts Backup

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Hop on to Google Play Store and you will find plenty of security apps designed to track your smartphone. Fresh out of the oven in this genre is NQ Mobile Easy Finder. While still being in beta, this Android app does a marvelous job of tracking your device if gets lost or stolen. The app can track your device, wipe any data stored on it, remotely snap a photo from its camera and email it to you, and more. It can also additionally back up your contacts. You can control the lost phone via your web browser by signing up for an NQ Mobile account. Read More

[Giveaway] MacKeeper Is An All-In-One System Maintenance & Security Tool For OS X

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We’ve covered a lot of small tools that help you clean up your Mac, make it run smoother, securely delete files, recover deleted file, or search for them. Though OS X does most - if not all - of these things natively, it doesn't offer as many customization options, or work as well as several third-party offerings. You can always look for apps that are meant to solve individual problems, or you could invest in an app that does everything for the right price. MacKeeper is a very famous app that acts as an antivirus and anti-theft app for your Mac. It also lets you encrypt data, recover deleted files, securely shred files, create backups, remove junk files, find duplicates, estimate the disk usage and break it down for you, uninstall apps and the many files they can sometimes leave behind, help you optimize start-up apps, and edit the default apps for different file extensions. Read More

Advanced Mobile Care For Android Gets Anti-Theft, Call Blocking & More

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Some time back, we covered an Android optimization app named Advanced Mobile Care that houses a plethora of mobile maintenance features wrapped in a fancy and intuitive UI. Originally sporting features such as 1-tap performance boost, virus protection, privacy protector and more, the app later received an update bringing in support for cloud backup, a very slick privacy adviser, and a revamped App manager. The app's development team seems to be a serious believer in there always being room for improvement, as  Advanced Mobile Care has just received another major update, bringing in newer features and some improvements to existing ones. The app now houses a new Anti-theft system, call blocker, and improved battery saver, and adds supports for Android tablets including the Nexus 7. Let's take a look at all that's new in Advanced Mobile Care after the break! Read More

TheftSpy Has Everything You Need In An Android Anti-Theft & Remote Management Tool [Review]

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We have previously reviewed quite a few remote device management, location tracking, and anti-theft solutions for Android, but it’s hard to recall a tool that matches the proficiency of TheftSpy. Fresh to the Play Store, TheftSpy (Alpha) is a multipurpose Android tool offering web-based remote management, location tracking and anti-theft features. Besides offering services like remote contact list, call logs & message inbox access, location tracking via GPS, data wiping, device locking, and system rebooting & shutting down, the app brings several relatively new features to the table, such as the option to remotely take device screenshots, snap images via front-facing camera, push custom text messages as full-screen pop-up alerts, toast messages or as Text-To-Speech (TTS), encrypt entire mobile content, read & delete WhatsApp messages, secretly record audio via your device’s microphone and lots more, all from your desktop web browser. Read More

Comodo Anti-theft: Remotely Track Your Lost Android Phone Through Simple SMS Commands

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Privacy and data security is one of the major concerns among smartphone aficionados. Our phones now carry so much of our credentials and personal information that we simply can’t afford to lose them. Nevertheless, accidents do happen, and whether you forget your phone at your local bar or someone intentionally steals this precious thing out of your pocket, all your personal data is compromised within a few minutes. Luckily enough, there are now various third-party apps available that give you the ability to pin point a stolen phone’s location, alert the surrounding folks and even remotely wipe-off your personal data from a stolen device. We have covered a number of such apps that provide device tracking and data protection facilities for your Android, including the popular TekTrak (reviewed here). Although this renowned app was shut down, you need not worry, as there are other alternatives to it, like Plan-B (reviewed here) or Bitdefender Mobile Security (reviewed here). Now, computer software security giant Comodo has come up with its own flavor of anti-theft technology, employed in its new app, Comodo Anti-theft. Read on find out how it works. Read More

Sophos Releases Anti-Malware, Anti-Theft & Privacy Protection App For Android

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It is a well-known fact that among all popular mobile platforms, Android is unarguably the one that is heavily plagued with all sorts of malware and other potentially harmful entities. Despite the committed efforts of concerned authorities to make one of the world’s most widely-used mobile OS free of all the various vulnerabilities, new threats keep rearing heads on a consistent basis. Perhaps that’s the reason why Sophos, the trusted security hardware and software provider, has decided to stepped into the foray to provide Android users with a reliable and feature-packed mobile protection tool by the name of Sophos Mobile Security. Currently in Beta, the app vows to offer uncompromised security for your Android device through three nifty and most sought-after device protection and anti-theft tools, namely Scanner, Loss & Theft, and Privacy Advisor. Each individual tool features several handy options that we shall look at in detail. Read More

OVERVI3W – Remotely Secure & Trace Your Android, Get Call/SMS Logs

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New to the market, Overvi3ew is a free mobile security and tracking app for your Android that, with the help of the web interface of Unfairware (app developer), lets you remotely protect, manage and trace your device along with providing you with an array of extremely useful mobile management features. You can remotely check your call logs, texts, contacts, bookmarks, web history, manage block list and check detailed device info. In terms of usability, Overvi3w falls very much in the same genre as TekTrak, AndroidLost and other such solutions. However, its ability to keep running silently on your device along with remotely sending commands from the web interface and exporting phone logs to downloadable files makes Overvi3w a standout candidate. Read More

Bitdefender App For Android Updated With Anti-Theft & SD Card Scanning

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If you are too concerned about the security of your Android device, then here’s a news that would surely relieve you big time. Bitdefender – a trusted cross-platform antivirus/antimalware solution – has recently updated its Android client with some of the most sought-after security features. While the client itself was covered on our website a couple of months ago, now it’s time to inform you about its latest updates and features. The updated Bitdefender Mobile Security app for Android lets you remotely locate your lost device and wipe vital data on your phone by logging into the Bitdefender website. Also, the updated client comes with the ability to transmit location of your device and scan SD-card upon mount or upon user request. Various other performance tweaks have also been made that we shall look at in detail past the break. Read More

Remotely Install Plan B To Track Down Your Lost Android Phone

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Having a ‘plan B’ up your sleeve for most instances in life is not a bad idea, and when it comes to securing your beloved Android phone, you better have one. While reviewing a couple of phone security/ locating apps such as TekTrak and Remote Ringer over the last week, we found that both demanded some sort of pre-configuration on your device to work effectively. But what if you somehow lose your mobile without any security app installed on it? There’s no need to panic because now we have Plan B – a free phone locating app for Android that, once remotely installed, is activated automatically and immediately starts sending geographic coordinates of your device on the associated mail account. Effectively, the app is your last-ditch effort to save your Android phone. Read More

TekTrak – Remotely Secure, Call, Text & Trace Your Android Device

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In quest to secure your beloved mobile phone, you may find plenty of phone protection apps but most of them don't provide you with an all-in-one solution. TekTrak is an Android app that brings comprehensive device protection and tracking solutions so that you can remotely secure your private information and locate your lost device easily. The iOS client of TekTrak has already had sound impact in the iTunes App Store while the Android client has been launched just recently. With TekTrak client installed on your Android, you can remotely access/secure your lost device from TekTrak website. Read More

CirrusManager Gives You Easy Remote Access To Multiple Android Devices

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CirrusManager for Android is a Google App Engine powered web app that, in combination with a mobile client, gives you remote control over multiple Android devices through a user-defined Google account. The app lets you monitor device status, location, call and SMS logs, running apps and activities, system logs, allows SMS composing and forwarding to mail, viewing and adding bookmarks and contacts, recording audio and more right from the comfort of your computer through an extremely well-crafted user interface. How does it compare to the previously reviewed AndroidLost? Join us after the break to find out. Read More

AndroidLost Gives You Remote Access To Your Lost Android Phone

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The private data that you carry around with yourself on your smartphone can really hurt you if your phone gets misplaced and lands in the wrong hands. AndroidLost is a free app for Android phones that, in combination with a web interface, allows you to remotely sound an alarm on or send a popup message to your misplaced Android phone from your computer, view your phone’s location on a map, lock it with a pin code of your choice, read its status (battery, temperature etc.), toggle WiFi and/or GPS, send SMS, read received SMS, forward incoming calls to a number of your choice, wipe your phone’s SD card or order it to execute a factory reset via web or SMS commands sent from another phone. The app is in beta as of this writing. Read More