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Following the launch of YouTube In Schools, a school friendly version of YouTube, we are pleased to announce support for the service in CensorNet Professional 2.1.4 which is free to all customers.
Published in General information & Product releases & CensorNet Professional on December 13, 2011 by Administrator
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This article contains change information for the latest and past versions of CensorNet Professional
Published in Product releases on December 06, 2011 by Administrator
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Servers are the mainstay of the modern business; domain controllers, Citrix servers, Terminal Services, e-mail servers, SQL servers...the list goes on. Whilst companies invest heavily in products, such as firewalls, VPN's and intrusion detection, to protect these assets from external attacks, the question remains as to whether they are keeping an eye on the people who actually configure, maintain and administer these machines.
Published in Desktop Surveillance on November 14, 2011 by Administrator
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It's a bold statement, but one that we feel well placed to live up to. After 18 months of research and development, our new cloud web filtering service is ready for you to take for a test drive. Having been in the business of web filtering since 2002, we understand what works and what doesn't, and we've incorporate all our knowledge and experience into this new product. The decisions we have made have now resulted in a superior web security service - well, we think so at least 
Published in Things you should know & Hosted Web Security on September 01, 2011 by Administrator
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We have a beta version of CensorNet Professional (2.0.21) available for those who are happy to test out the new features and provide feedback.
Published in Sneak preview & CensorNet Professional on August 20, 2011 by Administrator
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Google recently announced that they would be discontinuing support for many browsers that are currently in use today, in favour of more up-to-date versions of the same browsers. This will mean that many of the google services (eg mail, and google apps) may start having issues.
Published in Things you should know & CensorNet Professional on June 29, 2011 by Administrator
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We've just identified a bug in Google's Chrome browser that's corrupting the upload of CensorNet database backup files. It appears to be stripping some bits from the upload.
Published in Things you should know & CensorNet Professional on June 16, 2011 by Administrator
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The pending v2.0.x release brings with it some fundamental changes to the way that CensorNet classifies web sites and as a result this has a direct impact on the categories available in your filter policies. The good news is that the new system is faster, more accurate and broader - with an additional 30 categories being added to the database. Furthermore, it also includes malware protection as standard whereas previously this was an optional extra which you had to pay for.
Published in CensorNet Professional on November 09, 2010 by Administrator
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A recent update to Windows Server which claims to fix a re-authentication bug in SSL has also inadvertently broken the NTLM authentication for HTTPS sites in CensorNet.
Published in Things you should know & CensorNet Professional on October 19, 2010 by Administrator
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We've had a few tech support queries about google images recently, and considering the changes google have made to the back-end, I figured it was a good time to try to address the common queries about the google images site.
Published in Things you should know & CensorNet Professional on September 15, 2010 by Administrator
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Although CensorNet has the ability to issue alerts to administrators if resource thresholds are triggered (e.g. low disk space) some power users might prefer to use their existing SNMP management tool to monitor, report and alert about the status of the CensorNet server.
Published in CensorNet Professional on March 05, 2010 by Administrator
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Its been brought to our attention by one of our customers (thanks Eric!) that the latest release of Firefox includes a known bug relating to windows Authentication.
Published in CensorNet Professional on January 26, 2010 by Administrator
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Here on the tech support desk, we get a chance to remotely administer many of the customers CensorNet servers. I've been noticing recently that a lot of people are making a common mistake, so I thought I'd try to clarify it for everyone.
Published in CensorNet Professional on January 21, 2010 by Administrator
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We've recently had reports of a couple of sites that have been timing out when accessed through CensorNet. 999 times out of 1000, when this happens, there's a simple cause within your CensorNet policy setup, however occasionally there's more to it than that. In these cases, even adding the URL to the filter bypass cannot get the pages to download. Instead, all that they get is an "Upstream proxy did not respond in time" message.
Published in CensorNet Professional on January 08, 2010 by Administrator
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Whilst most companies seem to have a pretty solid strategy for filtering computers that don't move around (e.g. your desktop PC), there seems to be an issue emerging with corporate laptops that operate outside the network. These laptops (or indeed computers, if it is a home worker) may or may not be using a VPN and may be using a 3G, Wi-Fi or wired connection to the Internet. The problem comes when you want to reach out and apply the same policy that the employees in the office have to those out and about or working from home.
Published in Sneak preview & CensorNet Professional on November 13, 2009 by Administrator
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Our Development Team have been looking into making the CensorNet fault tolerant. This means that the failure of a device does not need to lead to the complete loss of the service.
Published in CensorNet Professional on August 20, 2009 by Administrator
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In the latest releases of CensorNet (1.4.20 and 1.5.7 at the time of writing)[1] we have introduced time based quotas.
Published in CensorNet Professional on May 16, 2009 by Administrator
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Last November spam levels dropped markedly when an ISP known as McColo was disconnected. They were disconnected when researchers discovered that a very high percentage of all spam generated by various botnets were commanded and controlled by IP addresses pinpointed with that provider. As soon as their upstreams pulled the plug the amount of spam flowing around the Internet plummeted.
Published in CensorNet MailSafe on April 03, 2009 by Administrator
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Have you ever wondered what you’d do if your mail server fell over?
Published in CensorNet MailSafe on August 25, 2007 by Administrator
