Browse Forum Posts by Tags: security

  • Re: return of the gumblars

    I have used NoScript for a long time, but I have not tried to overcome barriers to to getting the whole office to use it. What is the best way to approach this inertia, which has at least three components: I may be wrong, but it seems that Firefox addons work only for the user who installs them, so I...
  • Interesting series on Online Privacy--check it out

    NPR just did the final installment of their series, " The End of Privacy ". I highly recommend checking it out. It's a little scary, but also gave me things to think about for how to use social media either personally or for an organization, with an eye to the legal and social ramifications...
  • Websense, Symantec, or others...?

    I admin a small office of 50 employees. We have a new HR Director and she wants to enforce internet security. In the past we had used Websense to establish policies, rules, and track employee internet activity and behavior. Being a non-profit, we, like everyone, were hit hard by the economy and even...
  • mobile netbooks for human service agency

    Hi, My agency is talking about getting netbooks for our staff who go out on site visits (we are an organization that assists people with mental/developmental disabilities in finding work, plus other community supports.) Apparently some other larger human service org's are having their staff use these...
    Posted to Wireless Connectivity (Forum) by pleasantpittsfield on 09-17-2009
  • Monitoring internet usage

    Hello All We are thinking about using Safe Eyes software to monitor internet usage. If you have used this product what are your comments. If there are other products we should concider please let us know. Thanks Louis
    Posted to Open-Source and Free Software (Forum) by lcommodore on 09-15-2009
  • Re: Domain Level SPAM and Anti-Virus for Free

    I do understand the skepticism, but as a company in same field, we think it is possible to provide Free Email filtering services (just like Hotmail or Gmail provides Free Email boxes). Do look at SAFENTRIX , As far as reliability goes, I don't see why being "Free" should affect anything...
    Posted to Open-Source and Free Software (Forum) by krishnan on 09-10-2009
  • Re: Viagra Link

    Well, the funny thing about SMTP is that anyone can write a message and say its from anyone. So you might just be the unlucky target of a spam ad campaign. Take a look at this article from Wikipedia on Email Spoofing . It gives a good description of what might be occurring and I won't have to repeat...
  • Re: Do you use TLS/SSL at your organization?

    Well guys, the article, An Introduction to Transport Layer Security is now live. This issue has become more and more important for organizations in the past few years while trying to ensure their sites are secure as well as meeting new regulatory standards introduced by HIPAA and PCI standards of client...
    Posted to Networks (Forum) by BeckyW on 08-31-2009
  • Do you use TLS/SSL at your organization?

    If you work for an organization that deals with a lot of e-commerce (online storefront, Internet donations, etc) or houses a lot of sensitive client or user data (maybe a healthcare org, social benefit direct service agency, etc), you may already be using TLS/SSL encryption and security protocols on...
    Posted to Networks (Forum) by BeckyW on 08-27-2009
  • Nonprofits' online systems getting attacked

    An organization called Perverted Justice reported on its MySpace blog today about the arrest of a man who not only was harassing and threatening its volunteers online, but also set up a bot-net to conduct distributed denial of service attacks against the organization. From the blog: "Traffic ranged...
    Posted to Networks (Forum) by jcravens42 on 07-02-2009
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