content blocking
Block or Unblock Automatic Picture Downloads in E-mail Messages
White Paper This paper explains why blocking pictures can help protect the user from spam and how he can unblock pictures he feels are safe to download. To combat Web beacons, Outlook is configured by default to not automatically download pictures and other... [14 Feb 2007]
PureMessage Increases Productivity and Morale at Pulitzer Inc.
White Paper Pulitzer needed a solution that could be customized to enable accurate spam filtering without blocking vital news and information. The time required for employees to manage the nuisance email was growing exponentially, and the offensive content of... [24 Feb 2004]
PBL Subsidiary Saves Network Bandwidth While Reducing Legal and Security Risks With Websense Enterprise
White Paper For added network security, ACP also installed Websense Premium Groups II and III, databases that protect the user against security threats at the network-level by automatically blocking employee access to Web sites infected with Web-based viruses... [17 Dec 2004]
Spam Filter Testing Best Practices
White Paper Therefore, it is mandatory that organizations aggressively deploy top-tier spam-blocking solutions to mitigate the risks and problems associated with spam. Furthermore, spam is a conduit of all types of salacious content and fraudulent come-ons... [30 Jun 2008]
Design and Implementation of a High-Performance Network Intrusion Prevention System
White Paper Network intrusion prevention systems provide proactive defense against security threats by detecting and blocking attack-related traffic. The network processor acts as a customized load balancing splitter that cooperates with a set of modified... [08 Jan 2008]
Design and Implementation of a High-Performance Network Intrusion Prevention System
Network intrusion prevention systems provide proactive defense against security threats by detecting and blocking attack-related traffic. The network processor acts as a customized load balancing splitter that cooperates with a set of modified... [09 Jan 2008]
Emerging Threats: Stop Spam, Virus, and Fraud Outbreaks through End-to-End Attack Monitoring
White Paper Rigid scoring techniques can end up blocking e-mail your users want. How MailFrontier's evidence evaluation system identifies the sender, analyzes the content, and applies a collaborative review of every e-mail using Sender Authentication and... [12 Dec 2007]
Net neutrality back on the agenda in the US
News The Snowe-Dorgan legislation would bar network operators from blocking or degrading access to internet content and services, and from preventing consumers from connecting external devices to the network, with exceptions for security and other... [10 Jan 2007]
Guardian gets set to charge
News The sites also must contend with software that specialises in blocking advertising content or - like the controversial Gator application - covering up the site's ads with those of a third party. Another UK newspaper is hoping to persuade its... [08 Jul 2003]
Microsoft buys up antivirus firm
News Sybari sells technology that enables customers to run antivirus or spam-blocking software from other vendors on top of its own products, analysts said. Mike Nash, vice president of Microsoft's Security Business and Technology Unit, said in a... [09 Feb 2005]
The best of 'Reader Comments': Tackling online child porn
Comment The worms are deeds which may be technically illegal, but blocking information on such deeds may prove fatal. Both are criminal activities but can you justify blocking one and not another? Following some high-profile news stories, including the... [23 Feb 2001]
Olympic resolve: Why sports dot-coms are jumping through rings for media accreditation
Comment The main player blocking their route has a proven track record to deliver good content and it pays the IOC heavily to do so. Rebecca Ulph, analyst at Forrester Research, reckons recent developments are "a step in the right direction but [these... [14 Mar 2001]
Patent claim threatens streaming industry
News One of its subsidiaries owns critical technology used in the television content-blocking V-Chip and last year alone earned close to $25m in royalties from that side of the business. According to Berman, the patents could affect virtually anyone... [06 Feb 2003]
YouTube vs Viacom: 'It's about free speech' - Google
News He added, "we already have in place a digital hash blocking system" that identifies the digital "fingerprint" of content that has been removed for copyright reasons. Under the provision, service providers that host other people's content are "safe... [01 May 2007]
eBay asks users to weigh into net neutrality debate
News For their part, network operators from the telephone and cable industries, now allied with some of the nation's largest hardware makers, have said repeatedly that they have no intention of blocking, degrading or impairing content. [02 Jun 2006]
