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?