Creating an anonymous proxy site takes only a few minutes using one-click installation and open-source tools. News of a new proxy site spreads by email, instant messaging, SMS messaging, and other media. Why does word spread so quickly? Anonymous proxies are commonly created to get to any type of blocked [...]
“How can I protect my children from adult content on the Web that I don’t want them to see?” In most cases, parental controls, web filtering software, or services like OpenDNS are employed but such solutions rely on block lists to deny access to known objectionable and offensive websites … [...]
Why Cloud-based URL filtering? Do you know why endpoints, gateways, and even home routers have "parental controls" built right in? To keep devices protected and uncompromised. Bad actors are now operating on different and accelerated levels with tablets and smartphones, and URL content filtering has "evolved" to real-time dynamic assessments. [...]
You may think that breaking into the Alexa top 1 Million might be hard. Well, it isn't. Malware does it all the time. If you monitor the Alexa list for any length of time, it won't take long for the list churn to increase that number exponentially. You suddenly have [...]
Although the role of the lowly URL has really grown over the past few years, some things never change. At first, it was just basic web static content coming over on port 80, then it was encrypted static content on port 443. But now virtually everything from static to dynamic [...]
GLOBAL COVERAGE, HIGH QUALITY AND ACCURATE GLOBAL CATEGORIZATION AND REPUTATION SCORING ARE KEY TO THE inCompass® OEM URL FILTERING SOLUTION San Mateo, CA. – April 5, 2014 – NetSTAR, Inc., an ALPS System Integration Company (ALSI) group company and a global leader in secure web categorization and content filtering technology, [...]