Eagle Investigative Services has discovered that the Open Resource free proxy server Tor, used in part to block traffic analysis from companies like Google, is vastly insecure and can be used by hackers to steal passwords and other information used in phishing attacks. The Atlanta private investigators are thankful they run everything on Apple Macs [...]

New version of School Guardian Blocks UltraSurf and other HTTPS proxies
National Educational Computing Conference 2008
Booths 967-969
Internet security specialists SmoothWall announce that their new School Guardian web filter now incorporates pioneering support for blocking secure proxies such as UltraSurf.
Often described as ‘unblockable’, UltraSurf is a 100kb download that once installed allows students to visit blocked [...]