traffic filter in comment and analysis
The biggest VoIP security threats - and how to stop them
Comment Ovum analyst Graham Titterington says: "A normal content filter won't work, although some pin their hopes on speech recognition. It can affect any internet-connected device and works by flooding networks with spurious traffic or server requests. [22 Mar 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Report from spam hell
Comment They innovated and got around my filter. So my reaction was like everyone else - I got a spam filter. If your filter is 97 per cent efficient, then the three per cent that gets through only has to be big enough, in volume terms, to be a real problem. [19 Feb 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Yes, China is different
Comment If a content filter was being applied it wasn't apparent what the rational was for the decision to allow access or not. Before I departed for China I listened to and read the debates about the country's state of freedom of speech, communication and... [07 Aug 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: A single source for net protection
Comment Many vendors started life making products that filter incoming junk email and checks for viruses. Because of this, most organisations filter incoming and outgoing email to check for nasty stuff going either way and make sure their employees behave... [06 Oct 2005]
Analysis: The network is the security
Comment Network devices will have the ability to tear apart packets, block malicious code, enforce policies and filter content up and down the OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) stack. Like existing tools from Arbor Networks, Mazu Networks and Q1 Labs, the... [14 Jul 2004]
Leader: It's worse than a virus and more annoying than spam
Leader Companies won't filter it or block it - because there's no distinguishing between such notifications and genuine notifications of a failed mail. Even if their malicious creation doesn't get past the first line of defence they can be sure the... [28 Jan 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Not so wonderful spam
Comment The problem here is that too aggressive a filter will see important emails thrown out too, whilst a lax filter will have virtually no positive impact. My personal approach is to identify every spam source and log it into a spam filter that rejects... [12 Jun 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Who tracks your web usage, who owns your data, and who let the investors loose?
Comment Its solution was to come up with a filter requiring copyright holders to provide the artist and title of music that is to be protected. This is a clear indication that SurfControl is using probes that can pick up the network traffic to a site and... [02 Apr 2001]
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