Twitter Updates for 2009-05-13

May12
  • Currently finalising our Brightfilter CD. Brightfilter will soon be available in cd-format for retail/reseller/school distribution #

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The latest threat to school security - the SSL Anonymous Proxy

May8

The concept of filtering web content is not a new one in schools. The internet is a fantastic resource but one which cannot be provided in the educational environment without some level of control. Parents quite reasonably expect their children to be protected when they are within the school gates – and this goes for when they are in the virtual playground which is the Internet.

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Protecting children online

May8

The Internet we see today represents the unsurpassable collaborative nature of human endeavour mixed with a good healthy dollop of entrepreneurism and marketing know-how. By its very nature it is accessible to all, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The rate of growth is exponential, with over 100,000 new domain names being registered each day (Source: http://www.domaintools.com/internet-statistics/ ) as well as billions of new pages of copy in the form of blogs, product, news and comment. Surprisingly though, this enormous repository of information is by-and-large, completely un-policed resulting in the more controversial aspects of society and human nature having a platform on which their opinions can be heard, products can be sampled, subscribed to and purchased.

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How should parents approach a child’s Internet use?

May8

Despite all of the International laws and regulations we see in society today, the Internet as a whole is an unregulated medium. Add to this the advent of the Web 2.0 world with its real-time, constantly changing nature and it makes it very difficult to moderate web content. Even the hugely popular Social Networking sites of Facebook and MySpace rely on the signed-up community to police the content themselves and report anything untoward. If this is the case for multi-million dollar backed organisations, then who is going to moderate the rest of the web?

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Home Secretary Jacqui Smith

April27

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith ups the pressure on Service Providers - My that’s a lot of log-files to keep! http://tinyurl.com/d4qmrf

UK Government networks

April22

UK Government networks compromised again! Useful guide to how botnets work as well… http://tinyurl.com/cpk8ld

Great blog

April20

Great blog talking about web threats and trends. All integrated into our products - Check it out http://www.trustedsource.org/

Testing Brightfilter 2.1.0.10

April15

Testing Brightfilter 2.1.0.10 for release end April. Looking good !!

We are selling on Ebay

April7

We are selling on Ebay @ a reduced price - 100 copies for £19.99!!!
item number 150333408854

The UK Government

April7

Even the UK Government can get caught out! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7986483.stm

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