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Posts Tagged ‘public proxy’

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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How to Improve Public Proxy Management and Control

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Using public proxies generally involves browsing to a public proxy website to request access to another site, usually blocked or prohibited by organizational policy. When accessing sites in this fashion, firewalls, filtering devices and monitoring solutions are only aware that an employee, or student, has accessed the public proxy site, and not the actual end target site.
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Notes on E-Security Development

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Today, I had the pleasure of attending Western Australian Internet Association’s first (out of four) breakfast events. The main topic on the agenda was E-Security and a panel of expert, representing commercial, government and educational bodies, were there to shed a light on the latest developments.
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