Web Security News & Articles

Need a sobering reminder that malware attacks can devastate our seemingly benign web experience? Then you need to check out the 2011 Blue Coat Web Security Report, which examines web behavior and the malware to which users are most frequently exposed. What they found may change the way you look at the web. Or it may cause you to throw caution to the wind.

A new content filtering and threat protection Web gateway appliance - V10000 - from US data and email security firm Websense will allow companies access Web 2.0 sites safely without worries about data loss, inappropriate content concerns or productivity and liability threats.

The company says the new gateway will not only block malware on individual web pages, but that it will allow users to access and use Web 2.0 sites where sections of the site are infected and at the same time block the malicious content from accessing the user’s company network.

Fasten your common sense seatbelt and bolt on your FUD helmet. According to a report just released by Websense, a web, data and email security firm based in San Diego, CA, in the second half of 2008 70 of the top 100 websites either hosted malware or linked to sites hosting malware. To set some context, these numbers represent a 16% increase over the previous six-month period.

The top 100 sites -- many of which are social networking, Web 2.0 and search sites -- represent the majority of all webpages viewed on the Internet and were identified via the Alexa web service.

MessageLabs has released a white paper called Online Social Networking: The Employer’s Dilemma.

Its purpose is to distill the rift between social networking’s popularity, and UK employers’ attempts to yank it out of the workplace.