VaultletSoft News

(2010.01.27) VaultletSuite2Go v2.9.2: System Upgrade Friday, January 29 from 9:00am - 12:00 noon (GMT-05)

We'll be upgrading our systems from 9:00am until 12:00 noon GMT-05. While it's likely that our servers will be upgraded and back online in less than 30 minutes, upgrades always have an element of surprise to them, so we prefer to be conservative in our estimates of the time involved.

While we regret the interruption of service, we look forward to providing the VaultletSuite 2 Go's users with a newly enhanced SpecialDelivery service.

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(2009.12.10) International Human Rights Day 2009:

VaultletSoft Stands with Human Rights Defenders
in Announcing "Project Autonomy"

For some people, choosing to use secure email can make the difference between safely and successfully defending Human Rights or ending up jailed, tortured, or worse.

It would seem obvious that Human Rights Defenders should be using secure email for all of their important work. The problem is that, in may cases, there is no easy to use software available for them to use in their native language. As a result, many conduct their business in the very public “town square” of the internet, where any and all communications may be monitored and acted upon by those who would silence them and interfere with their important work.

In order to address this problem, VaultletSoft has decided to sponsor Project Autonomy, with the goal of creating an easily translated Open Source version of their “VaultletSuite 2 Go” software.

To see the press release, go here. To learn more about Project Autonomy and see what others are saying, go here.

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(2009.12.03) More Reasons to Go Gold: Save 25% on v2.9 for a Limited Time Only!

The latest version of the VaultletSuite 2 Go is packed with all the features and performance improvements that you need to manage thousands of messages securely, easily and quickly.

And now it's on sale: For a limited time only you can save 25% on Gold accounts with one click on the "Get More" button in the lower right hand corner of the VaultletSuite 2 Go's 5 main windows.

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To see all the Gold Goodness™ that we've packed into version 2.9, go here. To compare Blue and Gold versions, go here.

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(2009.11.24) VaultletSuite2Go v2.9: System Upgrade Friday, November 27 from 9:00am - 12:00 noon (GMT-05)

We'll be upgrading our systems from 9:00am until 12:00 noon GMT-05. While it's likely that our servers will be upgraded and back online in less than 30 minutes, upgrades always have an element of surprise to them, so we prefer to be conservative in our estimates of the time involved.

While we regret the interruption of service, we look forward to providing the VaultletSuite 2 Go's power and business users with the features and performance improvements that they need to manage thousands of messages securely, easily and quickly.

Come back Friday afternoon to check it out!

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(2009.11.04) VaultletSuite2Go v2.9 Beta: A Sneak Peak at New Features

Since our latest and greatest version is now officially being beta tested and is looking good, we thought we'd give you a sneak peak at what's coming in v2.9.

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Stay tuned for news of v2.9 becoming available for daily use within the next couple of weeks.

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(2009.10.05) VaultletSuite2Go v2.9: Wrapping up Alpha Development, Beta Testing Coming RealSoonNow™

Once we put 24/7 availability monitoring and support into place, we turned our attention to providing the VaultletSuite 2 Go's power and business users with the features and performance improvements that they need to manage thousands of messages securely, easily and quickly.

We've made great headway on that front, and are preparing to exit Alpha testing RealSoonNow™. So stay tuned for an "all hands" beta test announcement arriving soon in your VaultletMail inbox.

Either that or drop us a line to let us know that you want in on the beta testing action.

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(2009.08.24) New Premium Support Services Announced

VaultletSoft is growing, and so is your need for 24/7 support. As of today, all Gold account holders can expect free email support with guaranteed 48 hr response time*.

For those you for whom a guaranteed 48 hour turnaround isn't soon enough, you can obtain our undivided attention anytime for $80USD/hour during the workweek, and $120/hour for evenings and weekends*. You can find contact details here.

Our Blue and Basic account holders are in luck too: just signup for a free VaultletSoft Support Forums account, search to see if your question's already been answered. If not, then post your question and we'll make sure that you get what you need.

And here's the best part: If you're paying for support and it turns out that you've unearthed a bug we'll give you a 50% discount on our support rates.

For a more detailed comparison of our different account features and pricing, go here.

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(2009.08.20) New in v2.8.6: Fine Grained VaultletSuite 2 Go Service Availability Monitoring

As the VaultletSuite2Go has grown in popularity, so have our users' need for full-time, 24/7 availability. In March of 2009 we began employing monitoring services to ensure that our production server was both "findable" and accepting connections on the internet.

Now we've taken availability monitoring even further: with v2.8.6, we can easily track whether the VaultletSuite2Go server is not only "findable" and "connectable", but also if it's processing VaultletMail messages and that the external (plaintext) mail queues are also being processed in a timely manner.

With this kind of fine-grained monitoring now in place we'll be notified automatically by SMS if anything's amiss. And that means that we'll be able to intervene before anybody even notices any problems.

What's that mean for our loyal customers? Fewer service hiccups and greater peace of mind.

Want to check the status of our services? Just look at the bottom of this page for a high level summary.

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(2009.04.29) VaultletSuite 2 Go Featured in Tactical Technology Collective and FrontLine's "Security in-a-box" Project

English and Spanish versions of the beta "Security in-a-box" project have been posted which feature, among many other fine and useful privacy and security protecting software packages, tutorials (en/es) on the VaultletSuite 2 Go.

You might ask yourself "what's the "Security-in-a-box" project? Here's your answer, in the "Security in-a-box" project's own words:

...If you are an advocate who focuses on sensitive issues, or somebody who works closely with one, you have no doubt experienced or heard stories about digital security and privacy threats. Computers and backup drives that were confiscated, passwords that changed mysteriously, local websites that were hacked or overloaded by malicious Internet traffic, foreign websites that can no longer be accessed and emails that appear to have been forged, blocked, modified or read by someone other than the intended recipient. These are true stories, and many of them are set in an environment that makes matters even worse, an environment in which computer operating systems are frequently out-of-date, software is often pirated and viruses run rampant.

This toolkit provides explanations of, and solutions for, threats like these. It was created by a diverse team of experts who understand not only the conditions under which advocates work, but also the resource restrictions they face.

R. P. Ruiz, VaultletSoft's Founder, has collaborated extensively with Tactical Tech and Front Line on the internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) of the VaultletSuite 2 Go for this project.

In v2.8.3 of the VaultletSuite 2 Go, in addition to incorporating the finalized French and Russian interface translations, Ruiz has added new "Help" menu links that point to the Spanish and English versions of the "Security in-a-box" website and VaultletSuite 2 Go tutorials (en/es).

Says Ruiz: "This is a huge and important project - putting together and documenting a collection of free and complementary multilingual software packages for non-technologists is not for the faint of heart."

Further, Ruiz feels that "It is vitally important that everybody, individuals and businesses alike, support those doing important and dangerous work in defense of rights and principles that many of us take for granted. It is an honor and a pleasure to participate in this project and to make the VaultletSuite 2 Go available for free to NGOs, educational institutions and the press."

The "Security in-a-box" project is currently finalizing French, Russian and Arabic beta versions as we speak. New "Security in-a-box" "Help" menu items will be added to the French and Russian versions of the VaultletSuite 2 Go as they are made available.

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(2009.04.21) Over 1,000,000 messages, passwords and files protected by VaultletSuite 2 Go

VaultletSoft built it, and you came - and in the process the VaultletSuite 2 Go has gone from being bare-bones, English-only software to a trusted, portable and sophisticated multilingual privacy protection package used in over 70 countries by speakers of over 40 languages.

Thanks to all of you who understand that "Privacy is Autonomy". Without you, VaultletSoft would have no reason to exist.

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(2009.04.01) VaultletSoft's Founder, R. P. Ruiz, Interviewed on Univision About Conficker Threat

R. P. Ruiz spoke recently with Univisión about the sudden interest and apprehension over the timing, and possible impending doom, associated with the Conficker worm.

When asked to explain the danger represented by this particular piece of malware, his short answer was that because Conficker could update itself on the fly, and thus change it's behavior in the process, the threat to any given computer was incalculable.

Further, he added that users should take all malware seriously, and always take care to practice "safe computing", lest the smallest, most innocuous and media-attention-deprived malware fell their computer and destroy all of their most valuable information.

Said Ruiz: "I was asked for a simple answer to a problem that doesn't lend itself to silver bullet solutions... And telling people that they have an undeniable responsibility to educate themselves doesn't make for much of a sound byte either."

"So I told them to keep everything (OS, antivirus, firewall, browsers and plugins) up to date through automation", along with my old saw about always backing up their valuable information".

"...It was the off-camera conversation with my interviewer Claudia Uceda that felt more productive - in that conversation I gave her the condensed version of my Simple Electronic Security and Practical Data Protection Seminar."

Ruiz continued: "...and despite the fact that Claudia Uceda isn't a technologist, she followed it and asked intelligent questions along the way. This supports my claim that education is your most effective tool for protecting your valuable information.

So here's the take away in 3 words: "Educate and Automate". Once you have a fundamental understanding of the relationship between you, your computer, and the internet ecosystem, there are certain things and thought processes that you can automate to help lighten your load.

You too can learn how to protect your valuable information - all it takes is a little bit of time, interest, and VaultletSoft's Simple Electronic Security and Practical Data Protection Seminars and Workshops.

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(2009.03.17) VaultletSoft Offers You a New Service:

Simple Electronic Security and Practical Data Protection (SES & PDP) Workshops and Free Seminars.

VaultletSoft's president, R. P. Ruiz, has conducted quite a few SES & PDP workshops recently, both abroad and in the Washington D.C. area. These workshops, all of which he has given at the request of his clients, have been such a success that he has decided to offer them to you and the organizations that you work for.

With this offering, R. P. Ruiz addresses the most important link in the security chain: computer users and the environments they work in.

Says Ruiz:

It's amazing how well received these workshops are - once people see how vulnerable and insecure their valuable information really is, their jaws drop. Literally.

...And once they get over their initial shock, they're extremely motivated to learn how to mitigate the risks that have gone from being incredibly abstract before the workshop to the distressingly real for them.

After completing the workshop, attendees like you will not only be more secure, but will also become empowered and informed consumers of security software and services.

And that's the best kind!

To find out more about our hands-on workshops, along with our free seminars, go here.

For the full press release, go here.

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(2009.03.16) Version 2.8.2 Includes Easy Account Upgrades

Our latest update to the VaultletSuite 2 Go includes easy, at-a-glance subscription status information, along with quick access to account upgrades and subscription renewals.

All it takes is one click on the status bar's "Get More" button, and you're ready to upgrade or extend your current free subscription.

As you might expect from VaultletSoft, all payment information is not only encrypted in transit, but it's also stored encrypted, and only stored long enough to verify the transaction.

With this recent addition it doesn't get any easier for you to get more Gold or Blue years!

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(2009.03.06) New Prices and Features for the VaultletSuite 2 Go Announced

We've just updated the VaultletSuite 2 Go prices and features roadmap for the next 3 major releases, v2.9 through v3.1. In addition to that, we've published multi-license discount pack pricing for organizations.

The biggest news is that the Gold accounts get more of everything, including much more storage space and other unique and useful control and secure sharing features that you can't find anywhere else.

With regards to the new time, size and storage space constraints for Blue accounts mentioned in the new feature and pricing matrix, we'll begin enforcing them when v2.9 is released within the next couple of months. Not to worry though, we'll make sure that you'll be notified before we take any action.

To check our where we're going with new features and prices, go here. To view multi-license discount pack pricing, go here.

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(2009.02.19) Version 2.8 Brings Easy Access to Online Support Forums

Our latest major update to the VaultletSuite 2 Go includes easy access to the VaultletSuite 2 Go online Support Forums.

To access the forums, just fire up the latest version of the VaultletSuite 2 Go and click on the "Help" menu's "Support Forum" entry. Either that, or you can go straight to it from here, or from the "Forums" links found in all of the headers and footers of the VaultletSoft website.

All it takes is one click on the "Help" menu's "Support Forum" entry, and you're there. As you might expect from VaultletSoft, access to the forums is protected by an encrypted browser connection.

To see what else is new in v2.8, go here.

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(2009.02.02) We're Upgrading to VaultletSuite 2 Go v2.8 on Saturday, February 7th from 10:00am - 12:00 noon (GMT-05)

We'll be upgrading our systems from 10:00am until 12:00 noon GMT-05. While it's likely that our servers will be upgraded and back online in less than 30 minutes, upgrades always have an element of surprise to them, so we prefer to be conservative in our estimates of the time involved.

While we regret the interruption of service, we look forward to providing you with significantly enhanced multilingual system messaging support and our first beta SpecialDelivery Webmail plugin for Firefox, among other handsome and useful features.

Come back Saturday afternoon to check it out!

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(2009.01.06) VaultletSuite 2 Go v2.8 Enters Beta Testing

We've added some really nice new features and enhancements to the latest version of the VaultletSuite 2 Go, including huge usability improvements for both senders and recipients of our "send anywhere securely" SpecialDelivery messages.

Before we can release it for use on a daily basis however, we need our users to shake it down and let us know what they think.

We value their opinions so much that we're prepared to give them another free year's subscription to the Blue version of the VaultletSuite just for taking it for a test drive.

We think that's a great deal: our beta testers get more free Blue subscription years, and everybody gets an even more polished version of the VaultletSuite.

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(2008.10.02) VaultletSuite 2 Go Gold: What Is It, and How Can You Get It?

What is VaultletSuite 2 Go Gold? With the release of v2.7 of the VaultletSuite, we've added the first of many features that power users and business alike have told us that they need: Inline spell checking for English and the ability to securely send and view PDF files.

Between now and when we release v3.0 (a.k.a "El Dorado"), we're going to continue to add even more of your most requested features to our Gold accounts: The ability to securely send and view Word documents, inline spell checking in more languages, and our number one request: Offline mode.

We've also got a couple of other big surprises up our sleeves, but you'll just have to wait to beta test v3.0 to get your first look at them.

How can you get Gold? We're currently offering huge savings on our Gold subscriptions for a limited time only. You can save up to 40% if you act now. Here's how:

Log in to the VaultletSuite 2 Go and Click on "My Account"

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Once you've done that, choose "Display Account Manager".

Once the Account Manager is displayed, just click on the "Get more Gold..." option (displayed below).

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As you can see in the screenshot, if you've been with us for a while and have accumulated more than 4 Blue years (by being a beta tester or by referring friends and colleagues to us), you can also convert them to Gold years by using the VS2Go's Account Manager too.

It's our way of saying thanks to our early adopters. But don't wait, the Blue to Gold conversion is a limited time offer too!

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(2008.08.27) Coming Soon: VaultletSuite 2 Go v2.7 Gold!

We'll be take a big leap forward when we upgrade our VaultletSuite 2 Go client software this week.

With this latest release, we'll be offering our first taste of where our gold accounts are headed.

Stay tuned for further screenshots & details!

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(2008.04.24) We're Upgrading to VaultletSuite 2 Go v2.6 on Sunday, April 27th from 10:00am - 12:00 noon (GMT-05)

We'll be upgrading our systems from 10:00am until 12:00 noon GMT-05. While it's likely that our servers will be upgraded and back online in less than 30 minutes, upgrades always have an element of surprise to them, so we prefer to be conservative in our estimates of the time involved.

While we regret the interruption of service, we look forward to providing you with significantly enhanced multilingual and bidirectional text support, among many other highly desirable Good Things™.

Come back Sunday afternoon to check it out!

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(2008.04.08) VaultletSuite 2 Go v2.6 in Beta Testing

The VaultletSuite 2 Go's interface has been translated into French, Russian and Arabic, and now supports Right to Left VaultletMail message rendering for languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi.

Before we can release it for use on a daily basis however, we need our users to shake it down and let us know what they think.

We value our user's opinions so much that we're prepared to give them another free year's subscription to the Blue version of the VaultletSuite just for taking it for a test drive.

We think that's a great deal: our beta testers get more free Blue subscription years, and everybody gets an even more polished version of the VaultletSuite - now in 5 languages!

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(2008.02.19) We're Upgrading to VaultletSuite 2 Go v2.5 on Thursday, February 21st from 10:00am - 12:00 noon (GMT-05)

We'll be upgrading our systems from 10:00am GMT-05 until 12:00 noon GMT-05. While it's likely that our servers will be upgraded and back online in less than 10 minutes, upgrades always have an element of surprise to them, so we prefer to be conservative in our estimates of the time involved.

While we regret the interruption of service, we look forward to providing you with, among other things, your most requested feature. Check back on Thursday to see what it is!

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(2008.02.01) The Tip of the Iceberg: Our Last 12 Months

It's been an action packed last 12 months here at VaultletSoft: The VS2Go became a truly portable and self-updating app, our user base increased tenfold, we're getting great user and editorial reviews, and our privacy blog is drawing thousands of readers.

Not only that, but Apple is advertising the VaultletSuite 2 Go on their website, "protect and control" has become synonymous with the VaultletSuite 2 Go, and the term "VaultletSuite" returns thousands of hits on Google.

What's next? We can't say just yet. But we will say that you should definitely stay tuned because we've got a couple of announcements coming that you're going to love...

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(2008.01.07) VaultletSuite 2 Go Receives 4 Star "Very Good" Editor's Review from Softpedia

This recent review from Softpedia does a fine job of describing the advantages of using VaultletSuite 2 Go, along with pointing out functionality the Softpedia editors would like to see incorporated in future versions.

Softpedia's editors state that "VaultletMail is like nothing you have ever seen... [and] If you want to feel more like a Mi-6 or CIA spy, then try the cool features this mail client comes with."

In this review of v2.4.1, they identify a missing bit of functionality that we will be incorporating into the upcoming v2.5: the ability to manage multiple messages at one time. Their timing in mentioning this capacity couldn't be better, as we recently reported in our support FAQ that VaultletSuite 2 Go users recently voted multiple message select as their number one priority.

"I am quite pleased to see such a detailed and positive review of VaultletSuite 2 Go. This is a sign that our dedication to making it easy for users to protect and control their valuable information is paying off " said VaultletSoft's President, R. P. Ruiz.

Further, Ruiz adds: "There's nothing like 3rd party review of our software to substantiate what I and our users have believed all along: that the VaultletSuite 2 Go is secure, easy to use, and completely free of Spyware, Adware and Viruses".

(2008.01.17) This just in: See R. P. Ruiz' response on Softpedia's website.

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