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Cisco.com was falsely identified as a Hacking Site !

Here is an interesting read.. Earlier this week, Cisco’s homepage was briefly classified by Websense as a hacking site. This bungle happened as a result of their censorware, picking up an IP currently being used by Cisco, which was previously used by a hacking site. As a result of this, corporate users of Websense’s web filtering technology were [...]

Here is an interesting read..

Earlier this week, Cisco’s homepage was briefly classified by Websense as a hacking site.

This bungle happened as a result of their censorware, picking up an IP currently being used by Cisco, which was previously used by a hacking site.

As a result of this, corporate users of Websense’s web filtering technology were denied access to Cisco.com for about 15 minutes on Tuesday

The hosting IP of the site http://www.cisco.com/ was flagged for investigation for potential suspicious activity as the IP had formerly been in the hacking category.

After a thorough investigation the site was reviewed and identified safe for browsing within 15 minutes.

While I dont think the 15 minutes outage would have adversely affected Cisco.com traffic or users, however, this is a simple example of how false positives / alarms from security products could affect users.