Sydney Australia, July 27, 2010 – As the amount of internet connectable products continues to increase, Symantec are looking beyond just the PC and the Mac. Whether it’s a Blu-ray player, a gaming console or even a wireless digital picture frame, it’s amazing how many products now connect to the internet. 

Originally Symantec only offered protection for PCs and Macs

As the Android O/S becomes more widely accepted by a variety of mobile phone companies, Symantec have highlighted a huge security threat to these smart devices. From application blocking to call blocker and the most impressive feature… remote wipe and lock, users can now be assured that their Android compatible phones are truly safe. For example, if your phone gets stolen, all you need to do is log onto the internet or use another smart device to access the net and either “lock” or “remote wipe” your phone from anywhere. But as mentioned, Symantec are targetting other internet devices and hope to secure your entire internet network.

Symantec are working on a new secured network called Norton DNS which can be used on any internet device without software updates. This is a free service and by pointing your devices to this IP address, Norton does the protection on their side. This is available from today (http://www.nortondns.com) and they are working with a variety of companies to perfect this technology and more importantly, it’s faster than many of the DNS servers of today. 

Working in collaboration with Mocana, a company that deals in smart devices, Norton is aiming to secure future internet capable devices from the world of cyber crime. Needless to say, it’s good to see that one of the world’s largest security experts are expanding their knowledge to other devices and although other non PC or smartphone internet devices may seem like the Wild West, it’s only a matter of time before cybercriminals attack these devices.