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Posts Tagged ‘Blocked’

More Students Bypassing Schools’ Internet Security

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

International Business Times (IBT) recently reported that “Many young people are turning to proxy servers to get round their school’s internet security systems to access banned websites, including social networks and gaming sites.”

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Another Reason Organizations Should Avoid Excessive Internet Blocking

Friday, November 27th, 2009

Google Alerts have become an invaluable tool to keep track of WebSpy’s online presence and mentions. I’m also alerted on keywords related to other players in the Internet Security Industry. The last couple of weeks I have noticed quite a steep increase in alerts on a well-known internet blocking and filtering vendor. Majority of these alerts are linked with the frustration of being blocked and how to go about disabling and bypassing the blocking and filtering rules put into place.

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U.S Army End Ban on Social Media Sites

Monday, June 15th, 2009

After blogging about an increase in Australian employers blocking social network access it is refreshing to see a more positive trend.

Certain U.S. Army bases, that formerly blocked access to Web 2.0 sites, now permit users to surf to sites such as Facebook and Flickr. The Army has ordered its network managers to give soldiers access to social media and thereby reversing a years-long trend of blocking web 2.0 sites on military networks.
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Enhancement to the Sophos Loader in Analyzer

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

We’ve made a modification to Analyzer’s Sophos Web Security Appliance loader so that it takes the value from the action field to determine blocked/allowed.

The fix can be applied to WebSpy Analyzer Giga 2.3, Analyzer Premium 4.3 or Analyzer Standard 4.3. (more…)

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