GFI WebMonitor 2009™ launches as stand-alone proxy version
November 3, 2009 – 1:55 pm | No Comment

GFI WebMonitor 2009™ is now available as a stand-alone proxy.
The perfect internet monitoring solution for the SMB market, this new version of GFI WebMonitor will work in most networking environments and allows administrators to manage …

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Article Archive for October 2009

Search Engines, Friend or Foe?
October 30, 2009 – 3:02 pm | 2 Comments
Search Engines, Friend or Foe?

Security is all about identifying threats and provisioning for them before your enemy exploits that threat. There are so many vectors to take care of that it truly is a daunting task.
Input validation, perimeter control, …

Protecting against Money Theft
October 29, 2009 – 2:29 pm | No Comment
Protecting against Money Theft

Time and time again we read stories about malicious people using Trojans to steal money. This time it happened to Cumberland County Redevelopment Authority where, by using a Trojan, a malicious hacker stole nearly half …

Protecting your time and resources with GFI WebMonitor is about to get even easier
October 28, 2009 – 10:30 am | No Comment
Protecting your time and resources with GFI WebMonitor is about to get even easier

In multiple articles on this blog, we have extolled the virtues of monitoring your network traffic.  From Walter Scott’s article on the virtues of time management and the productivity of the monitored employee, to the …

Security vs. Productivity in the Workplace
October 27, 2009 – 3:41 pm | No Comment
Security vs. Productivity in the Workplace

Conventional wisdom has always told us that when it comes to deciding what users should be allowed to do, the correct choice would be to allow access only to what they need to do, or …

Copy and Paste is not working on my Remote Desktop Connection… what’s wrong?
October 26, 2009 – 3:06 pm | 8 Comments
Copy and Paste is not working on my Remote Desktop Connection… what’s wrong?

A very annoying occurrence that I sometimes suffer is when all of a sudden the copy and paste function stops working when I am connected to a remote machine. Turns out the problem is coming …

Nine GFI products support Microsoft’s latest platforms
October 23, 2009 – 9:53 am | No Comment
Nine GFI products support Microsoft’s latest platforms

We are pleased to announce that nine of our products now support Microsoft’s latest platforms – Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
These new platforms have been designed to improve upon performance, applicability, device compatibility, …

The Dangers of Social Networking
October 22, 2009 – 2:53 pm | 4 Comments
The Dangers of Social Networking

Social sites such as Facebook and MySpace are a big hit nowadays; not just with the young generation but with people of all ages. It’s an amazing platform for people to connect but it certainly …

Oops! We’ve lost your data!
October 21, 2009 – 2:38 pm | No Comment
Oops! We’ve lost your data!

Over 100,000 former adult students in Virginia are being contacted by the education authorities after a USB stick with information including their names, social security numbers and employment and demographic details, was misplaced.
The data was …

Into uncharted territory
October 20, 2009 – 1:45 am | No Comment
Into uncharted territory

I decided to go a bit further than usual, and push the limits of the unknown.
I decided to install Funtoo, a Gentoo based distro or rather fork, by the Gentoo fouder Daniel Robbins. Daniel is …

GFI MAX visits SMB Nation 2009 in Riviera, Las Vegas
October 19, 2009 – 1:09 pm | No Comment
GFI MAX visits SMB Nation 2009 in Riviera, Las Vegas

It was a warm, arid evening when MAX stepped off the plane in McClaren Airport in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada.  MAX brought his favorite crew – Kevin Hodak, Sales Engineer, Anne Murphy, Channel Marketing Manager …