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Stress of managing company confidential data is greater than divorce or managing personal debt(24/10/2011)
Websense, Inc. has commissioned independent research firm Dynamic Markets to survey 1,000 IT managers and 1,000 non-IT employees in the U.S., UK, Canada, and Australia about the latest threats to corporate and personal security, including modern malware and advanced persistent threats (APTs). The research reveals that serious data breaches have occurred compromising CEO and other executives’ data, confidential customer data, and data necessar... [more]
Websense protects Facebook users from links that lead to malware and malicious sites(11/10/2011)
Websense technology has been added to Facebook’s existing protections to stop users from clicking on links without knowing the trustworthiness of the destination. When a Facebook user clicks on a link it will be checked against the Websense database. If Websense determines the link is malicious, the user will see a page that offers the choice to continue at their own risk, return to the previous screen, or get more information on why it was flagg... [more]
The need for a truly unified security solution(14/04/2010)
It’s no secret that modern security threats are converging and a significant proportion of data loss occurs via coordinated Web and email attacks. So why is it that many organisations manage multiple different security technologies? Information held and shared electronically proves rich pickings for cybercriminals. Businesses are actively targeted for specific information, and the threat can hit using email, Internet and data stealing technol... [more]
SEO poisoning attacks are likely to gain steam this year(30/03/2010)
A malicious SEO poisoning attack, also known as a Blackhat SEO attack, occurs when hackers manipulate search engine results to make their links appear higher than legitimate results. As a user searches for related terms, the infected links appear near the top of the search results, generating a greater number of clicks to malicious Web sites. Search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning is an increasingly popular method of attack for cybercrimin... [more]
University Hospitals Birmingham ensures patient records are handled securely with Websense(05/08/2009)
University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) NHS Foundation Trust, a leading university teaching hospital and research and development centre in the UK, has selected the complete Websense Essential Information Protection portfolio of products to create an integrated policy-based IT security platform to secure the integrity of patient data and valuable Intellectual Property (IP), and protect against Web 2.0 threats. Offering a low total cost of owner... [more]
Employees perceive spam as an annoyance rather than a potential security threat(22/05/2008)
Complacency is still rife amongst UK employees toward e-mail security, according to a new research released by Websense. Nearly one third (31%) of respondents stating they were satisfied with their company not fully protecting e-mail as they didn’t feel they would be targeted by cybercriminals. The survey also reveals that 35% of respondents said a hacker’s gaining access to their computer through an e-mail borne attack would not happen to t... [more]
Malicious JavaScript injection evolves(24/04/2008)
Websense® Security Labs has been tracking a recent development of the malicious JavaScript injection that compromised thousands of domains at the start of this month, just 2-3 weeks ago. The attackers have now switched over to a new domain as their hub for hosting the malicious payload in this attack. We have no doubt that the two attacks are related as our brief analysis in our blog will detail. In the last few hours we have seen the number ... [more]
Northern Ireland Civil Service chooses Websense software for Web security and e-mail filtering(11/03/2008)
Websense, Inc. has announced that Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) has chosen Websense software to provide Web security and e-mail filtering for all its staff. The decision to choose Websense was driven by IT Assist, the ICT Shared Service Centre providing shared services to all NICS government departments and IT agencies which support them. The £250,000 contract was signed in January 2008 following a review of Web and e-mail security requir... [more]
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