Back to the articleSad #
Posted Friday 20th March 2009 23:34 GMT
If you're a company as big as Websense, and your job is to do web filtering, how does "whitelist" not make the list of features? Surely if there were such a list, cisco.com would be on it.
Websense mistakes Cisco.com for hack site
Dynamic IP? #
Posted Monday 23rd March 2009 11:19 GMT
I'd expect a major company like Cisco to have a more-or-less permanent IP address.
"After a thorough investigation the site was reviewed and identified safe for browsing within 15 minutes."
'Thorough investigation' and '15 minutes' really don't belong in the same sentence.
Odd excuse #
Posted Monday 23rd March 2009 11:19 GMT
It's possible that cisco.com has changed its IP address--it might be on a server farm somewhere--but something about the excuse feels a bit dodgy.
And this is why #
Posted Monday 23rd March 2009 11:19 GMT
IP-based blocking simply does not work in today's world.
D**n #
Posted Tuesday 24th March 2009 10:29 GMT
You mean that isn't the right site for that?
--Glenn
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