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27 November 2012Security
Online shoppers warned to be secureNicholas McAvaney from the Press Association speaks to Smoothwall's Gavin Logan about dangers facing online shoppers - especially during the festive period.Read more
24 October 2012Security
IWF Awareness DaySmoothwall is a member of the Internet Watch Foundation, the UK internet Hotline for anyone to report their inadvertent exposure to online child sexual abuse content hosted anywhere in the world, non-photographic child sexual abuse images and criminally obscene adult content hosted in the UK.Read more
22 June 2012Smoothwall
IWF report catches sexual offenderAn anonymous public report to the Internet Watch Foundation led to a man’s arrest, conviction and the rescue of three children from sexual abuse. Read more
06 June 2012Security
SCMagazine: "ISPs and web filtering - are MPs right?"Smoothwall's Simon Wilcox speaks to SC Magazine about whether or not the Government would be sensible to impose web filtering at ISP level.Read more
31 May 2012Security
O2 Customers File Sharing Porn To Get Stiff LettersThe BBC have just reported that Ben Dover Productions have won the right to have access to the IP addresses of O2 customers suspected of illegally sharing pornographic films it is expected that they will begin receiving letters from the film-maker shortly. The firm won a court order in March forcing O2 to pass on details of the owners of 9,124 IP addresses linked to illegal downloads.Read more
02 May 2012Security
Mixed messages from Government when it comes to filtering for pornTHE UK’S LEADING web security and filtering specialist is warning that the Government must see through its promise to protect children from pornographic images on the Internet.Read more
22 March 2012Smoothwall
Making BYOD work in the wild.We recently took a moment to speak with some of our education sector customers, to find out just how much of a factor BYOD has proven to be in their network.Read more
12 February 2012Smoothwall
Smoothwall Drives Sales With Military PrecisionSmoothwall's Corporate Sales team have recently won a series of high profile international contracts.Read more
12 February 2012Smoothwall
Channeling Success in the Right DirectionSmoothwall has doubled in size in the last year and is reporting a 40% increase in business as a result of significant growth in the firm’s channel business which has secured over £500,000 worth of contracts with a wide range of Internet Service Providers (ISP’S), Network Support Providers and Systems Integrators.Read more
07 February 2012Security
In Love and Sharing PasswordsWhen you're young and in love (remember that?) what could be more romantic than share your most treasured on-line possession? - Your password. Read more
30 January 2012Smoothwall
New e-Safety Law for Academies White PaperA new whitepaper covering e-Safety law and Academies has been released by Smoothwall today. Researched and written by the noted expert in the field, Dr. Brian Bandey - it covers the legal environment for Academies of both Internet and email misuse by both students and staff.Read more
18 January 2012Security
Mass Suspension at Pittsburgh School for Bypassing FilterDian Schaffhauser writing in the Journal picked up on a story about students using UltraSurf to bypass the school's web filtering and security systems. Read more
18 January 2012Smoothwall
BYOD is the Challenge of the DecadeWhilst instant internet access at home, work or even in coffee shops and on trains is something most people now take for granted, for many network managers the growing popularity of smart phones, tablets and other portable devices is causing a major headache.Read more
06 January 2012Smoothwall
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and Network Guest Access for EducationMany students and teachers now have higher specification communications devices at home and in their pockets than they are supplied with on the school campus - how can you keep them safe on-line at school ... Read more
06 January 2012Smoothwall
Web filtering and control for mobile devices - Smoothwall Mobile Guardian for Windows, Mac OSX and iOSManaging, controlling and appropriately filtering web use on mobile devices is becoming a core part of every network managers’ day to day responsibility. Read more
06 January 2012Smoothwall
New Smoothwall SWG-3600 & UTM-3000 AppliancesBigger. Faster. Optional go faster stripes and big spoiler. The time comes when you really need to have a bit more space and a bit more oomph! Smoothwall’s new hardware appliances the UTM-3000 and the SWG-3600 appliances have both in spades.Read more
06 January 2012Smoothwall
YouTube.com/educationYouTube is the home of the weird, wonderful, explicit and outrageous - it’s also a vast repository of brilliant and mind-expanding educational resources. It can also be a bit of a minefield for unwary teachers and those responsible for providing appropriate web content for young students. Read more
06 January 2012Smoothwall
Facebook - look but don't touch!Facebook - Do you love it or hate it? Do you build your your social life around it? Is it just a bit distracting during the working / studying day? Read more
06 January 2012Smoothwall
Google Encrypted Search - What it really means for SchoolsSearching the web for innocuous things can often bring surprising and unwanted results.Read more
06 January 2012Smoothwall
Delivering safe and appropriate web access on diverse Council controlled networksDeploying Central or Local Web Filtering, Security and Control? The choice when building web filtering and security systems seems at the outset to be simple - a top-down relatively inflexible centrally managed and deployed system or individual local deployments that deliver increased flexibility but have higher costs. Read more
06 January 2012Smoothwall
SWURL from Smoothwall - Personal control of URL safelists for teachersEvery teacher we know hates asking for ‘permission’ from their IT support teams to unblock web pages that fall into the categorisation grey areas - especially as they are responsible and accountable for making the best decisions about what is and isn’t suitable for their students everyday.Read more
06 January 2012Smoothwall
Developing Pa55VV0rD skills in young people - smoothwall.net/myPasswordYour first line of defence in personal online safety is the strength and security of your password - whether you’re six or sixty creating and keeping it secure is a crucial life skill to master. Being tricked into disclosing it, having it stolen or hacked means that you can be impersonated, defrauded or humiliated online.Read more