Two-Factor logins require users to

1. Enter their username and password properly (the 1st factor)
2. Authenticate a second way (e.g. by entering a code delivered to their mobile phones).

Apple iOS v5 for iPad and iPhone is out!  iCloud is great, allowing easy synchronization of your Apple devices and limited synch with Outlook.

For easy synchronization of your iPhone, iPad, and all other mobile devices (i.e. Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile) and LuxSci’s WebAide collaboration tools (Tasks / Calendars / Contacts), LuxSci MobileSync is still the best way to go.

Apple iOS5 with LuxSci Mobile Sync:

• Still supports multiple calendar and contact list synchronizations
• Still supports mail synchronization, Push email, and secure sending
• New – Supports automatic synchronization of iOS “Reminders” with WebAide Task Lists
• New – Create new email folders from the Mail application
• New – Calendar events now support separate time zones for each event, making collaboration with folks in differing time zones much easier.
• New – Flag Support. The “Flagged” status of email messages now synchronizes
• New – Offline email move and delete.  If you move or delete mail while disconnected, these operations will now be performed when your device reconnects
• Updated – Improves notification to users of new mail and other items
• Updated – Server-side email folder searching has been improved.

Additionally, with LuxSci WebAideSync, you can also have your Calendars/Tasks/Contacts automatically synchronized with Microsoft Outlook as well.

Ink Signatures enable you to capture the hand written signatures of your web form users and to save these with their form submissions.

• Easy: Users can employ a mouse or stylus on desktop or laptop computers; a stylus or their finger on a mobile device
• Compatible: Works with all major web browsers as well as iPhone, iPad, and Android-powered mobile devices.

If you would like customers to actually sign their name to your web form, rather than merely checking a “checkbox”, now you can — and it is easy with the LuxSci SecureForm service.

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Viruses have been the bane of Windows users since before the World Wide Web became popular. If you owned a Mac though, you were generally immune to them. They didn’t targets Macs and still rarely do. But is that changing now that Apple and its products like the iPhone and iPad have become increasingly popular?

Most security experts agree that Apple products are still more secure than Windows, not because of any inherit security differences, but because Apple products are still used by a minority of computer users. While more people are buying Apple computers (which includes iPhones and iPads) it is still a drop in the bucket compared to the number of Windows computers out there. Virus and malware writers still go for the most bang for their buck, so they target Windows — at least up until now.

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You’ve just gotten the latest and shiniest smartphone there is, now what do you do with your old smartphone? In the old days of ‘feature’ phones that just made phone calls and maybe had a calendar we would just through them out or recycle them. But now our phones aren’t really phones anymore, they are mini-computers. Why not use them for various things around the house or on the go?

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There are several great iPhone Security Apps and a handful of good and simple configuration changes that you can make to your iPhone to greatly enhance you iPhone security and protect your sensitive information and identity.  We have seen security vulnerabilities in iPhone including flaws in pass code access (since fixed), so it makes sense to take proactive measures — especially as attacks on mobile devices are growing rapidly.

Easy Configuration Changes for Security and Privacy

There are several iPhone configuration settings that you should make to start protecting your iPhone.  The first thing to do is “Don’t Jailbreak Your iPhone“.  Jailbreaking removes much of the security inherent in the iPhone and makes it much easier for malicious software or users to gain access.  Furthermore, Apps that you can install on a Jailbroken phone may have not gone though any kind of screening process — you have to “trust” that they are OK.

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When health care organizations review their operations to see where electronic protected health information (ePHI) is being saved, transmitted, and viewed, a great deal of time is spent on the obvious candidates: email, chat, stored files and health records, etc.

Many overlook the fact that ePHI can be embedded in Contacts, Calendars, and Tasks.  Consider for example:

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LuxSci now offers Basic Mobile Sync and Premium Mobile Sync.  These synchronization services enable:

• Real-time two-way synchronization of Calendar, Contact, and Tasks between LuxSci WebAides and Mobile devices
• Push Email for real time notifications of new email
• Compatibile with any mobile device that supports Exchange / ActiveSync.  This includes: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android, Windows Mobile, Palm Pre/Pixi, and BlackBerry*
• HIPAA-compliant security, when used with a LuxSci HIPAA account, adds mobile synchronization for any user, even if sensitive data is present in email, calendars, contacts, or tasks.
• The same level of security can also be had in non-HIPAA accounts by using SecureLine and appropriate security settings.
• Beta: Mobile Sync services are now in “Beta” and not yet available for purchase.  The Beta testing period is expected to end sometime in January, 2011.  If you are interested being a Beta tester and using this service before then, please Contact Sales.

For complete details on the features included with this servce, see our Mobile Sync Service page.

*BlackBerry support requires the purchase of a third party app, as BlackBerry is the only major mobile device without support for over-the-air synchronization with Exchange.

LuxSci’s Widgets just got better.  With this latest release, users can now access shared and/or personal calendars, address books, and tasks as widgets in any page of LuxSci, via custom hotkeys, and via their phone in our “Mobile Mode“.

All of these WebAide Widgets now support:

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LuxSci has offered an “Xpress” WebMail portal for many years.  The portal is fast, simple, and works with most devices because it does not use any JavaScript or cookies, and uses few images.  The Xpress portal is good for security, privacy, and access from legacy devices, as well as over very slow connections.

However, the mobile device landscape is quickly changing.  Starting with the iPhone and its full-featured Safari web browser, to the Android, the Palm Pre, and the availability of browsers like OperaMini on many phones, it is now the case that many “cutting edge” phones actually have fast web browsers that fully support JavaScript, AJAX, CSS, and broadband — all the technologies formerly the purview of the desktop.  Their major drawback, however, is still the very small screen. Many of these browsers work perfectly well with most web sites, including LuxSci’s full-featured WebMail portal; however, it can be problematic and painful to use and navigate sites designed for large displays on these device’s small screens.

Enter LuxSci’s new “Mobile Mode”.  Mobile Mode is a new feature of LuxSci’s regular WebMail interface that is available when it detects that you are accessing it using a mobile device, such as an iPhone.

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