27 11, 2009

Another Reason Organizations Should Avoid Excessive Internet Blocking

By | 2009-11-27T07:52:01+00:00 November 27th, 2009|How To, Sales and Marketing, Tips and Best Practices, Uncategorized, Web Browsing Analysis|0 Comments

Google Alerts have become an invaluable tool to keep track of WebSpy’s online presence and mentions. I’m also alerted on keywords related to other players in the Internet Security Industry. The last couple of weeks I have noticed quite a steep increase in alerts on a well-known internet blocking and filtering vendor. Majority of these [...]

16 11, 2009

Santa Claus is Coming to Town – Ho, Ho, How will it Affect your Workplace?

By | 2009-11-16T03:25:44+00:00 November 16th, 2009|Tips and Best Practices, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Tis should be the season to be jolly but it looks like employers have reasons to watch out, and maybe even cry, all because Santa Claus is coming to town. Gallup has reported that Christmas spending intentions are currently down, compared to last year. Americans are planning to spend an average of $740 on gifts [...]

11 11, 2009

Lessons learned from a hacked Twitter account

By | 2009-11-11T07:09:12+00:00 November 11th, 2009|Articles, Cyber Crime, How To, Tips and Best Practices, Uncategorized, WebSpy, WebSpy News Update|0 Comments

If you follow @WebSpy on Twitter, you would have received a very strange Direct Message (DM) from us yesterday. Something along the lines of "rofl this you?" or "you're on this vid!" or "I found you on here!" Unfortunately, the WebSpy Twitter account fell victim to a phishing scam, and as a result sent phishing spam to all our Twitter followers. We are embarrassed by the incident and we apologize to all of our followers, especially the ones that clicked the link in the DM and were caught by the phishing scam themselves. Here's a rundown of the event in the hope that it will help others know what to look out for.

5 11, 2009

Gartner Report: IT Spending Projected to Increase

By | 2009-11-05T04:00:38+00:00 November 5th, 2009|Sales and Marketing, Uncategorized, WebSpy News Update|0 Comments

Everything in its own time, if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain, it is always darkest before the dawn – and all other proverbs hinting encouragement and new beginnings. Gartner has just released its latest report, Gartner Perspective: IT Spending 2010, anticipating that our 2008 and 2009 economic recession is [...]

30 10, 2009

ComGuard Showcasing WebSpy's Monitoring Software at GITEX

By | 2009-10-30T02:41:37+00:00 October 30th, 2009|Sales and Marketing, Uncategorized, WebSpy, WebSpy News Update|0 Comments

Our Middle East Partner, ComGuard, represented WebSpy at GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK the 18th to 22nd of October. On behalf of WebSpy and ComGuard, I would like to thank all GITEX visitors for showing such an overwhelming interest in our products. I’ve been in touch with ComGuard’s Product Manager, Amir Mohsen Abedinifar, who was present at [...]

23 10, 2009

How should Employees use Social Media?

By | 2009-10-23T07:24:32+00:00 October 23rd, 2009|Sales and Marketing, Tips and Best Practices, Uncategorized|0 Comments

WebProNews is an online news site covering the latest developments in search engines, SEO, social media marketing and online advertising and I have been subscribing to them for many odd years. Recently they have been posting interviews, surveys and comments in relation to the use of social media. New research from Robert Half Technology indicates [...]

15 10, 2009

Where does Vantage store data and how do I change it?

By | 2009-10-15T08:05:02+00:00 October 15th, 2009|How To, Log File Analysis, storages, Uncategorized, Vantage, Web Module|0 Comments

In the log file analysis world, we're always dealing with large volumes of data. By default, WebSpy Vantage stores its data, including the storages that you import log files into, somewhere on your c: drive. Changing this location to somewhere with more disk space is therefore one of the first steps that customers like to perform, so I thought I'd write a quick blog to explain the locations you should be aware of and how to change them.