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- Firewall
- The primary method for keeping a computer secure from intruders. A firewall allows or blocks traffic into and out of a private network or the user's computer. Firewalls...
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- LogMeIn's IPO: The VCs made money. Will you?
- LogMeIn's IPO: The VCs made money. Will you?This SMB ...... uses windows Remote Desktop and is investigating Direct Access in W7. No money left for addons when the OS does the job.That's fine if you have the capacity and ability to forward portsBut for me there are times when I...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-01
- Rating the standalone firewalls
- Rating the standalone firewallsI'm surprised you didn't list Barracuda...I was sure they had a standalone gateway firewall; perhaps my understanding of enterprise level gear is off kilter.Most IT folks I know preferr Barracuda.RE: Rating the standalone firewallsI think instead of standalone firewalls we should go for a UTM product. Cyberoam...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-11
- Reverse Port Forwarding Wizard 2.8 (Windows)
- What is reverse port forwarding? For example, there are computer A and B, computer B is a computer that behind a firewall or a router. Computer A is your local computer. If you want to access a service of computer B, say port number is 80. The first things you...
- Software downloads 2009-06-04
- Mysterious virus strikes FBI
- Mysterious virus strikes FBICan you please explain ...... what the FBI is doing wrong?thx^o^It's started!ye has just started another nonsense session and as usual it promises to be long, very looooooong.Malware that results from social engineeringDoesn't normally mass-infect computers in a single location. Odds are very good this is a...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-22
- New England Journal of Medicine fights flu panic
- New England Journal of Medicine fights flu panicKnow what's behind the firewall?A lot of research paid for with taxpayer funding.Someone gets the funding from the NIH, does the research and sends their results to one of the major pubs, like the NEJM. Docs with subscriptions get the information, but...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-08
- Re: Re: Winning the Battle but Losing the War
- Larry Dignan wrote here about the reality that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 & 7 are the official, formal web browsers for 78% of companies, a figure arrived at by Forrester research. The simple reason for this is basically security and software compatibility. Many...
- Blog posts 2009-04-30
- UserGate Proxy & Firewall 5.1.331 (Windows)
- UserGate is a complex solution for sharing Internet access among employees in your company, making traffic calculations, and protecting your local network against malicious activity and software, such as hacker attacks, viruses and Trojans. UserGate is a flexible yet very powerful program that can be used in small- and mid-sized...
- Software downloads 2009-04-16
- CBS 60 Minutes covers Conficker, malware epidemic
- CBS 60 Minutes covers Conficker, malware epidemicDid you teach her or did she teach you.Because Lesley Stahl spent 15 minutes of prime time television talking about a serious computer security problem an not once did she mention the manufacture of the affected operating system, Microsoft!I was waiting...for her to ask...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-29
- Ex-botnet master hired by TelstraClear
- Ex-botnet master hired by TelstraClearHiring bad guys...This makes as much sense as a police force hiring rapists and murderers because they may know where to look for bad guys and know how they think, then let child pornographers run day cares because they like kids.Are you being serious?What better way...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-24
- AutoPlay - Fun and social engineering
- AutoPlay - Fun and social engineeringAbout 9m reasons to fix itIf you believe F-secureWhat is the proposed fix?Should Windows 7 detect icons that look like a folder and prevent developers from creating titles that say "Open folder to view files"?Besides, Windows no longer defaults the user to running as root...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-19
- MS Patch Tuesday: 3 critical SMB vulnerabilities
- MS Patch Tuesday: 3 critical SMB vulnerabilitiesHard to find decent help these days[i]Microsoft today shipped a solitary bulletin with patches for at least three documented security flaws in the Microsoft Server Message Block SMB Protocol.[/i]Except it's not in the protocol but in Microsoft's code that implements the protocol. SAMBA,...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-13
- Firewall MySQL with GreenSQL
- Vincent Danen introduces one solution to secure against SQL injection vulnerabilities. GreenSQL is a "firewall" for MySQL databases that intercepts SQL commands being sent to MySQL, checks them, and then either halts the query or passes it on to MySQL proper. Then it returns the query results to the calling...
- Download resources 2009-01-05
- Integrated Intrusion Prevention & the Network Firewall
- Most people think of integrated intrusion prevention as standalone or dedicated IPS appliances or software. However, in many situations, the actual need is for intrusion prevention that is integrated into the core firewall and into other security enforcement points. What to think about when deploying intrusion prevention into the overall...
- Webcasts 2009-01-01
- Call Firewall for Blackberry 1.0 (Mobile)
- Features:1. With the menu item in the Call Log and the address book to add call numbers and Address Book numbers.2. 6 different block rules.3. The Block Log records all the blocked calls. You may call back or delete the record per your choice.4. With the option to record the...
- Software downloads 2008-12-22
- Security Lessons and Your Personal Firewall
- Security Lessons and Your Personal FirewallHow dry can an article get!With all respect to the author, I couldn't get past the second paragraph before wilting away from extreme dehydration. Dull is a harsh description but very accurate. Reading this article was like sucking on a dry sponge. I didn't have...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- Security Lessons and Your Personal Firewall
- There's an interesting dynamic I've been noticing and discussing a lot recently - people and companies are grappling with how to project some facets of their lives and information online while keeping other areas secret. As i suggested in my previous post, it...
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- In tight times, Microsoft launches two new servers
- In tight times, Microsoft launches two new serversWell done MS...some of us had given up on them releasing anything.This product update comes with multiple SKUs to squeeze every last dollar out of customers. Keeping CALs is a unique feature.Appears they've added "Remote Web Workplace" and 120-day [b]trials[/b] of "Microsoft Forefront...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-12
- Why your Firewall, VPN, and IEE 802.11i Aren't Enough to Protect Your Network
- Like any network technology, wireless local area networks WLANs need to be protected from security threats. Though recent developments in IEEE standards have been designed to help ensure privacy for authenticated WLAN users, WLAN clients and enterprise infrastructure can still be vulnerable to a variety of threats that are unique...
- White papers 2008-11-01
- A question about web server volume failures
- A question about web server volume failuresWrite heavy loadI don't think you can compare a write-heavy do-not-call registry to a mostly static wordpress site.It wouldn't hard to mock-up a simple registry site and test it.The question you seem to be askig is.. how do i make my site scalable.Lets start...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Defense-in-depth in practice
- Defense-in-depth in practiceTotally agreed. I'm sick and tired of people saying these things:Totally agreed. I'm sick and tired of people saying these things:-"I already have a firewall, so I don't need an antivirus."-"I already have an antivirus, so I turned off UAC."-And along with turning off antivirus: "Nothing is eating...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
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