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Securing your shop from Web Threats

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by klinley

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I manage a small IT shop and my technical guy is hyping the seriousness of Web Threats. We use Websense and block sites in categories we don't like. Additionally we block a link that occurs from a site we do like. This means that we visit s friendly site and quite often that web page uses links to other sites. Instead of getting the link displayed we put up a "Blocked" message.

Now the reasoning for this is that hackers can crack a web site and replace an innocent link with a redirection to their malicious site and while displaying the correct image, hijack your desktop. The recent hijack placed on the Dolphin Stadium was used as an example of this.

Are redirections really the problem? Or are they only one of a myriad of ways? I am trying to determine if it is reasonable block redirections in an attempt to make it safer to surf the Internet. Or are we causing ourselves a lot of grief and for what amounts to no real protection?

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by deepsand

I suggest the you try the "Questions" forum.

The "Discussion" forum is for matters of general discussion, not specific problems in search of a solution.

Post problems such as this to the "Question" forum, rather than the "Discussion" forum. There are those who specifically seek out problems in need of a solution, and that's where they go to look for such.

Additionally there are the benefits that:

1) The "Questions" forum provides for your feedback, by way of your being able to mark "helpful" responses as such. This does not necessarily mean that a given response contained the complete solution to your problem, but only that it served to guide you toward it. This is intended to serve as an aid to those who may in the future have a problem similar to yours, so that they might have a ready source of reference available, thereby perhaps obviating the need for them to repeat questions previously asked and answered.

2) The revised TR makes it quite difficult to find both "Discussions" and "Questions" that have not had a fairly recent post, owing to some functions comingling them in the listings. By keeping each type in their respective forums, it is easier for all to find what they are looking for.

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