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Trend Micro Announces Web Security Service for PLAYSTATION 3

After being a pioneer in Security for computers, Trend Micro has announced Web Security Service for PLAYSTATION®3 thus becmoing the first to provide protection against malicious web sites using URL filtering combined with Web reputation.

This security service for PS3 is expected to be available from November 8,2007 and will be free till April 2008. The service provision will begin on November 8 as part of PS3’s system software update version 2.00 for PS3s sold worldwide with the user interface in 16 languages.

According to Trend Micro home game systems with Web site browsing capabilities will continue to proliferate, and Web browsing via a game console is expected to become more and more popular. With the growing trend, users may also become more susceptible to malicious Web sites through the game system, or may have a chance to become the victim of cybercrime that targets monetary transactions such as shopping, banking, and securities trading through Web sites.

This service has been developed as a module especially for PS3 using Trend Micro’s own Web reputation and URL filtering technology. By using this service, a wide range of PS3 users will feel safe to browse the Internet.

Access to websites that are classified into specific categories (Adult/Sex, Alcohol/Tobacco, Crime, Cults/The Occult, Gambling, Hacking/Proxy Avoidance, Illegal Drugs, Sex Education, Violence/Hate/Racism, Weapons/Military, etc.) can be blocked simply by going to the PS3 Internet Browser menu,*4 selecting “Tool,” and then selecting “Trend Micro Web Security for PS3” from “Browser Security.” A password will be needed.

When a website is accessed from PS3, Trend Micro in-the-cloud databases are looked up. The URL filtering database classifies Web sites into categories, and the Web reputation database is highly immediate in evaluating Web pages, domains and IP addresses. By using both capabilities together, malicious Web pages and Web sites that were previously difficult to handle only with URL filtering can also be blocked.

The date and method to switch to a pay service and the price will be announced as soon as a decision is made. One can go here for further details.

We have seen security software wars for computers and for mobile are also going on… So whats next?? Security wars for Gaming Consoles