In a move akin to forming a neighborhood watch, some filter vendors now allow users to add Web addresses and file download rules to their organizations’ threat databases, said Shawn McCarthy, program ...

SurfControl, which produces Web and e-mail filters, said that it has been granted a U.S. patent for software that allows companies to block Web sites, despite the ire of online activists against such ...

The developer of proxy software designed to defeat Web filters is offering Internet users $10 to install and run his application, as a way to raise its profile. Independent developer Bennett Haselton, ...

NEW YORK – Lightspeed Systems, which produces software used for website filtering in thousands of public schools across the U.S., confirmed today that it will update its software to remove a filter ...