Entries Tagged as 'Security'
Oliver Braekow, Webwasher product manager for Secure Computing, was the guest of the first Jon’s Network Podcast.
Oliver explains how, using their SSL scanner module, Webwasher prevents malware from using HTTPS to communicate. It will also prevent users from bypassing traditional web content filters using popular CGI proxies. This is important to keep sensitive [...]

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Tags: Anti-Virus · Malware · Security · Web Filtering · Web Proxy · Webwasher · podcast
Can you guess the vendor?
I watched a web demo yesterday. Here are my notes from the strategic portion that demonstrate well how list based solutions are no match for today’s threats. Which vendor gave the presentation?
Problems
no outbound inspection
no anti-malware protection from live web pages (web 2.0 pages with more user generated content)
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Tags: Anti-Virus · Email Security · Malware · Security · Spam · Web · Web Filtering
This Times article details a new technique that criminals could use to steal your log-in information. It only works if they have the password to your router. Since most casual internet users don’t even know they have a router, their routers still have the default passwords such as "admin". (The article estimates that 50% are [...]
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Tags: Security