Grace Removals is one of Australia and New Zealand’s oldest removal companies and they recently chose Bloxx Web filtering to filter and monitor its users across 40 sites. Howard Malyon, IT Manager at Grace, wanted a new web filter that could filter effectively and flexibly, was easy to manage and would allow him to easily produce reports.
CBS News has reported a story about an employee who was dismissed for looking at gun parts websites on a company computer. The dismissed employee had raised a lawsuit against the company alleging that the gun-web-site issue was simply an excuse to fire him because of his medical condition and absence from work. Read more…
After five years and with over 300 million users signed up, Facebook has at last reached break even point. The company has seen a tripling of users in the last 12 months, has recently launched a revamped search engine and is soon to launch an online payment system. Analysts are predicting income to rise by 70% this year.
The BBC has reported that Portsmouth City Council has banned staff from accessing a number of web sites including facebook, Bebo, Twitter and eBay. The council had previously banned YouTube.
As the new academic year gets underway, ICT managers will be steeling themselves for the ongoing battle of trying to prevent students using anonymous proxies to get unfiltered access to the entire web.
Bloxx has just issued a press release that again highlights the dangers and risks of anonymous proxies in education.
Bloxx announced yesteday that Schoharie Central School District in New York use its Web content filtering appliance to monitor and protect its staff and students. Read more…
The UK’s Office for Security and Counter Terrorism - a department of the Home Office - has just released an updated document that highlights the risk posed by Violent Extremism content which is readily available on the Web.
The Bloxx Web filtering appliance has added the new Bing search engine to its SafeSearch blocking. The Bloxx appliance can be set up to automatically enforce SafeSearch on search engines, even when users try to change the settings. Read more…
Bloxx has launched a drive to recruit channel distributors and resellers to sell its product across the EMEA region.
With great margins and proactive channel support, security partners should definitely look to Bloxx if they want to increase their sales and give their customers a web filter that will increase their protection and security.
If you want more information on becoming a Bloxx channel partner, please fill in your details on the Bloxx website.
The BBC has reported that a Scottish teacher who posted messages discussing her pupils on a social networking website is being investigated by her employers. You can read the full story here.
The secondary teacher in Argyll and Bute is understood to have posted up to 38 updates a day on the Twitter site and based on the times of the tweet, many of them were created during the school day.
The council have stated that they block access to all social networking sites, but it’s possible that the teacher managed to bypass the council’s filtering,
