Cisco shines light on "Dark Web" of Proxies & Redirects
Cisco launched software that shines light on potentially troublesome websites hidden in what the US computer security firm dubbed the "Dark Web."
Cisco IronPort Web Usage Controls promise to identify as much as 90 percent of "egregious" content that has escaped detection by business IT managers and security applications because of its stealthy nature on the Internet.
"The Dark Web is about corporate users' inability to see how workers are using the Web," Cisco product line manager Kevin Kennedy told AFP on Thursday.
"It is that dark, dynamic and churning part of the Web that has created the problem for business."
Computer users are growing increasingly savvy about sidestepping Internet filters, using proxy servers and other techniques to mask which websites they visit while at work, according to Cisco.
For example, if workers log into Facebook.com from an office computer someone in the IT department can typically tell how much time they fritter away at the popular social-networking website.
blinklist : 
BoingBoing : 
del.icio.us : 
digg : 
furl :
shadows : 
simpy : 
Slashdot : 
spurl : 
yahoo
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