Filtering Net Usage to Prevent Abuse
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By Foo Eu Jin  THE Internet is often misused by both the young and old, whether at home, school or workplace, without them being aware of the ethical and legal impact. These abuses range from online pornography to seditious blogs, and they need to be addressed quickly.
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(Source: St. Bernard Software) IT professionals increasingly view the Web as a minefield. Trojans, phishing attacks, adware, and spyware are just some of the threats that have to be countered. Securing your organization against Web-borne attacks -- and keeping your users away from 'Net distractions -- often falls on filtering technologies. This program will discuss how organizations can use filtering and other security technologies to fight Web-borne dangers.
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Researchers find that net users are not as secure as they think. Among surveyed adults who believed they were safe from online threats, most had spyware running on their home computers and few had firewall protection.
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How would you feel about your ISP selling ads on your site and scarfing up your visitors' data without your permission? Network World's Scott Bradner suggests we nip the NebuAd concept in the bud, fast.
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Users can search by file format, size, and duration.
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By Randy Myers, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  May 29--In hopes of making the Internet a safer place for children, concerned parents tap into a multitude of resources.
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Is the company you pay to bring you the Internet blocking parts of it instead?
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A curious network performance reduction noticed by many Windows Vista users of the 2CPU forum that became the talk of Slashdot last week has been identified as having been caused not by DRM, as Slashdot users expected, but by a curious prioritization "feature" of Vista that's intentionally biased toward Media Player at the expense of network and system resources.
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In this article we will look at a means to bypass the access control restrictions of a company's router or firewall.  This information is intended to provide help for those who are legitimately testing the security of a network (whether they are in-house expertise or outside consultants).
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Researchers aim to make file-sharing fairer by treating bandwidth like a currency.
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Increasingly popular social-networking sites such as MySpace, YouTube, and Facebook account for huge volumes of DNS queries and bandwidth consumption.
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The rapid growth of online videos, music and games has created a new Internet sin: using it too much.
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The tool from Blue Coat Systems detects spyware at the Internet gateway as well as the desktop and is designed to keep it from affecting network performance and security.
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If you run a site that has tons of files for your users to download (or even just a few) that you want to keep safe from a direct link, this new article from the O'Reilly PHP DevCenter might be just what you're looking for.
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By Steve Lawson's  HERE'S an interesting one... Webaroo.  It's a free download service that allows you to take large portions of the internet with you on your travels.
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Fighting clutter? Here's how to clear it out.
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While corporations are monitoring ports and using advanced security tools to fend off infection and attack, home users -- who have less technical sophistication -- are left more susceptible, sometimes