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Expert insights on network security, content filtering, and internet management for families, businesses, and ISPs.
What Does Incognito Mode Actually Hide (And What It Doesn't)?
Skip to content Incognito mode stops your browser from saving history on your device, but it does nothing to hide your activity from your internet connection. Every website you visit in incognito…
The Virus Your Intern Just Brought to Work (In Their Pocket)
Skip to content The Virus Your Intern Just Brought to Work (In Their Pocket) Your company’s network just got infected. Not by a hacker halfway around the world. By someone’s personal phone connecting…
The 'School-Night Wi-Fi' Routine: One Setting That Makes Homework Easier (Without Fights)
Skip to content Tuesday at 6:15 PM. Dinner is over, the backpack is open, and the math worksheet is still blank. Your twelve-year-old is hunched over what you think is a calculator app, but it is…
This graph shows how South African WhatsApp users are flocking to Telegram
Skip to content Users around the world have flocked to Telegram after WhatsApp’s most recent privacy policy update, and South Africans are no exception. WhatsApp updated its privacy policy and terms…
Yes, one can, and should, demand clean internet from one's ISP
Skip to content The world has never been more connected. In South Africa, wide-scale adoption of fibre to the home and business has enabled high-speed access to any and all types of content available…
Why behaviour-based IDS/IPS is more effective than traditional signature-based IDS/IPS
Imagine you could stop a person committing a heinous crime before they had even attempted to. Would you? This may not be possible in the physical world, but using the LucidView approach, it most…
Two simple steps to massively reduce cyber risk
Skip to content South African internet users and remote workers could massively reduce their cyber risk through two simple measures, namely: two-factor authentication and choosing an ISP that offers…
The future of internet management
Skip to content In today’s digital age, being able to effectively manage internet usage has become more important than ever before. Both personally and professionally, the internet has fundamentally…
Opportunity for IT professionals, enthusiasts
Skip to content Provide clean, secure and fast internet to your customers. Any business understands the importance of managing their internet. Whether it is blocking access to undesirable content,…
Managing social media – time-based rules
Skip to content When people talk about internet security, we immediately think about the obvious dangers posed by malware, ransomware and hackers gaining access to our private data. Hardly a week…
LucidView puts internet control into the hands of ISPs, customers
Skip to content LucidView has launched a new package for its solution that allows ISPs, MSP, WISPs and end-users to control what websites they can access, and the amount of bandwidth allocated to…
Increase profit using LucidView’s oversell ratio booster for WISPs, ISPs
Skip to content ISPs and WISPs that have a central internet breakout (typically, tier one or tier two ISPs) can use LucidView’s Saturation Manager to increase their oversell ratio, while at the same…
Effective, affordable intrusion detection and prevention solution for enterprises, ISPs
Skip to content In today’s digital age, businesses and individuals alike are constantly at risk of cyber security threats. The LucidView Enforcer is a powerful tool designed to detect and prevent…
Cost/benefit of saturation management over bandwidth upgrade
Skip to content With the marked increase in internet usage, lines are becoming saturated and response times are slowing. The first instinct of service providers is to recommend that you upgrade your…
Affordable internet solutions for ISPs, MSPs, enterprises, individual users using MikroTik
Skip to content In a recent review of MikroTik routers and switches from real users in Peerspot, the users made a number of insightful comments. These included upsides, such as: “MikroTik offers full…
Service Provider to ISP's, WISP's & MSP's
Internet service provider starter pack and solutions from…
10Gbps + Traffic shaping on a MikroTik RouterOS
Skip to content LucidView has introduced a 10Gbps + (upwards) traffic shaping solution that is designed to run on MikroTik RouterOS. This breakthrough technology is already running at Enterprise…
Why you shouldn’t rely on DNS based Content Filtering
Skip to content There can be no question to any parent, teacher or community leader that Clean Internet for children is an essential component of the education, social development and communication…
The Social Dilemma | Dangers of Social Media
Skip to content A must watch documentary I watched this documentary with much scepticism, trying to convince myself that it was designed to elicit fear. Throughout the documentary, I would pause and…
Coronavirus | Cyber Security | Malware | Protect with LucidView
Skip to content As the novel Coronavirus or Covid-19 spreads across the globe with increasingly stringent measures being put into place in an attempt to contain the virus, we have some 300 million…
Using your MikroTik with LucidView's advanced Free Config Script and have the ability to prevent a Zero Day Attack!
Skip to content Presentations by LucidView at the JHBMUM Conference On Friday the 7th of February 2020, LucidView both attended and presented at the MikroTik User Event. LucidView covered two…
Internet and the Youth, Statistics you should be aware of
Skip to content In this new decade it is important that parents, teachers, guardians are aware of how kids use the Internet and its potential impact on our children. Firstly, Access to the Internet…
Impact of Internet Access on Children, Cyberbullying, Social Media, Suicide
Skip to content Social Media and Suicide Are your kids constantly checking their phones? More and more studies are being released linking teenage suicide and social media. As a parent, you need to be…
ANNOUNCEMENT: MUM JHB 2020
Skip to content LucidView will be presenting on Clean Internet, Content Filtering and behaviour based Intrusion Detection and Prevention at the MUM Conference in JHB on the 7th of February 2020 which…
2019: The Rise of Ransomware
Ransomware has been around for some time now, however, during the past twelve months wGove have seen a dramatic increase in reported attacks. One can almost be certain that the attacks that are…
Mylobot, What is it? Why you should be concerned?
In last weeks blog, LucidView alerted readers to a strain of malware that is extremely sophisticated and very difficult to isolate and remove. This malware makes use of DGA, or a Domain Generation…
IMPORTANT: New Malware Strain Impacting Networks
This week LucidView identified an increase in a malware type not often seen. This malware is much smarter and much more difficult for cybersecurity staff to identify and remedy. Its results can…
LucidView Sponsors Conference on Wellness in the Internet Era
Towards the end of last year, LucidView published an articleby a counsellor who specialises in the field of childhood trauma and the effects of pornography on the developing brain. This area of…
The Prevalence of Ransomware!
Anyone following the news over the last year cannot ignore the frequency of which these types of attacks are taking place. The organisations and companies that make the front page of the news are…
South Africa Under Attack!
Over the past few days we have seen major metropolitan areas, large ISP’s, Telecom Companies and even more disturbingly the banking sector come under attack by both DDOS attacks and Ransomware…
Torrents - The Dangers to your Network
A torrent is a file that holds metadata containing information in it. There is no actual content in the file itself, however, when opened by Bitorrent software, the metadata in the original file…
Are you a MikroTik Administrator?
Enhance your MikroTik Router into a powerful Internet gateway management tool using LucidView’s Cloud Service. MikroTik is a rapidly growing manufacturer of computer networking equipment globally.…
Pornography and the Young Brain
Many parents will read this title and immediately not want to read the article – it is a scary thought to believe our children would be exposed to such a thing. In today’s world, with our technology…
