21 10, 2010

Twitter Evolution Infographic and Amazing Usage Statistics

By | 2010-10-21T06:05:33+00:00 October 21st, 2010|Uncategorized, WebSpy, WebSpy News Update|0 Comments

As it’s always been pretty difficult getting accurate figures on Twitter demographics and usage I was pretty chuffed to come across below statistics and facts. If you are, or considering, blocking Twitter at your workplace please have a look through these amazing numbers and think again. Seems like Twitter is here to stay doesn’t it? [...]

15 07, 2010

Security Threats Increase with Growth in Social Networking – Blocking still not the Answer

By | 2010-07-15T06:46:13+00:00 July 15th, 2010|Uncategorized, WebSpy News Update|0 Comments

IT security firm Trend Micro recently released results from their latest study surveying 1,600 end-users in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Japan. The study focused on employees’ use of corporate computers while on corporate LANs. Trend Micro found that the use of social networking sites grew globally from 19% in 2008 to 24% [...]

14 06, 2010

Government sanctioned ISP Filtering & Monitoring – Is Australia going Orweillian?

By | 2010-06-14T07:30:35+00:00 June 14th, 2010|Uncategorized, WebSpy News Update|0 Comments

It was a bright cold day in June, and the clocks were striking thirteen as I browsed Google Sci/Tech News and came across ZDNet’s ‘Govt wants ISPs to record browsing history’ article. The Australian Attorney-General’s Department recently confirmed ongoing discussions about implementing a data retention regime in Australia requiring ISPs to hold customers web browsing [...]