Stinkysteve
07-01-2004, 05:27 PM
Story here:
http://www.internetweek.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=22102740
Porn Sites Big Problem For Small Firms
By Small Business Pipeline
What are many small-business workers doing when they think nobody's looking? The same thing as workers in large firms: Looking at porn.
Don't blame them, though: most of the time it's accidental, according to a new study conducted by Cerberian and SonicWall, developers of Web filtering and security products. According to the joint study, more than 75% of people have accidentally visited a pornographic Web site while at work; 15% have visited pornographic sites more than 10 times. The results are based on 2,400 responses, including 2112 small-business workers.
According to the survey, conducted via e-mail in April, the Internet is still a relatively unmonitored medium with 60% of the respondents indicating their organizations did not have rules against personal Web surfing at work, and more than 50% of organizations have not implemented any type of Internet filtering technology.
According to the survey, the most common ways people have accidentally reached pornographic content on the Web are:
-- Pop up windows (55%),
-- Misrepresented links (52%),
-- Misspelled URLs (48%), and
-- Auto links within emails (23%).
While the survey indicates it is common to accidentally come across pornographic Web sites, the survey also reported the following:
-- 16% of people have knowingly surfed pornography sites at work at least once;
-- 40% have seen co-workers surfing porn sites;
-- 32% of people have seen co-workers surf gambling sites;
-- 91% have seen people shopping online; and
-- 85% have seen co-workers surfing sports-related Web sites.
The survey also asked how people felt after seeing co-workers surf pornography, gambling, shopping, and sports Web sites. Sixty-eight percent were bothered by pornography surfing, with 47% bothered enough to confront the offender or mention it to management or human resources. Fifty-nine percent were offended by gambling surfing; 35%, by shopping online; and 29%, by sports surfing.
The survey comes on the heels of a report by message-filtering firms that spammers pitching pornography are largely ignoring the Federal Trade Commission's recent requirements. Fewer than one in six pornographic unsolicited e-mails scanned by MX Logic complied with CAN-SPAM's new rules, said Scott Chasin, the Denver-based company's chief technology officer.
As part of the implementation of the CAN-SPAM Act, which went into effect Jan. 1, the FTC ruled that all pornographic e-mail must carry the label "SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT" in the subject head. The notice is intended to warn recipients that a message contains sexually-oriented material, as well as to make it easier for users, businesses, and Internet providers to block such messages. Only 15.3% a sampling of 12,000 pornographic messages scanned by MX Logic was properly labeled.
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http://www.internetweek.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=22102740
Porn Sites Big Problem For Small Firms
By Small Business Pipeline
What are many small-business workers doing when they think nobody's looking? The same thing as workers in large firms: Looking at porn.
Don't blame them, though: most of the time it's accidental, according to a new study conducted by Cerberian and SonicWall, developers of Web filtering and security products. According to the joint study, more than 75% of people have accidentally visited a pornographic Web site while at work; 15% have visited pornographic sites more than 10 times. The results are based on 2,400 responses, including 2112 small-business workers.
According to the survey, conducted via e-mail in April, the Internet is still a relatively unmonitored medium with 60% of the respondents indicating their organizations did not have rules against personal Web surfing at work, and more than 50% of organizations have not implemented any type of Internet filtering technology.
According to the survey, the most common ways people have accidentally reached pornographic content on the Web are:
-- Pop up windows (55%),
-- Misrepresented links (52%),
-- Misspelled URLs (48%), and
-- Auto links within emails (23%).
While the survey indicates it is common to accidentally come across pornographic Web sites, the survey also reported the following:
-- 16% of people have knowingly surfed pornography sites at work at least once;
-- 40% have seen co-workers surfing porn sites;
-- 32% of people have seen co-workers surf gambling sites;
-- 91% have seen people shopping online; and
-- 85% have seen co-workers surfing sports-related Web sites.
The survey also asked how people felt after seeing co-workers surf pornography, gambling, shopping, and sports Web sites. Sixty-eight percent were bothered by pornography surfing, with 47% bothered enough to confront the offender or mention it to management or human resources. Fifty-nine percent were offended by gambling surfing; 35%, by shopping online; and 29%, by sports surfing.
The survey comes on the heels of a report by message-filtering firms that spammers pitching pornography are largely ignoring the Federal Trade Commission's recent requirements. Fewer than one in six pornographic unsolicited e-mails scanned by MX Logic complied with CAN-SPAM's new rules, said Scott Chasin, the Denver-based company's chief technology officer.
As part of the implementation of the CAN-SPAM Act, which went into effect Jan. 1, the FTC ruled that all pornographic e-mail must carry the label "SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT" in the subject head. The notice is intended to warn recipients that a message contains sexually-oriented material, as well as to make it easier for users, businesses, and Internet providers to block such messages. Only 15.3% a sampling of 12,000 pornographic messages scanned by MX Logic was properly labeled.
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