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Privacy Watch: Make Sure Your Firewall Is Sturdy Test your firewall to find out if it has any holes -- and then plug them up.   |
RootPrompt.org
March 20, 2000
Lance Spitzner |
Building a Honeypot In an addition to his three part series "Know Your Enemy" Lance Spitzner tells us about how to track black-hats while they probe and compromise a system... |
RootPrompt.org
June 26, 2000
Lance E. Spitzner |
Knowing When Someone Is Knocking Lance E. Spitzner tells us how you can protect yourself by detecting intrusion attempts and then covers what you can do about them. |
PC Magazine
December 30, 2003
Matthew D. Sarrel |
Network Security: Know Your Weaknesses Vulnerability scanners identify your network's insecurities. Which one of these 6 tested products will watch your back? |
PC Magazine
October 5, 2004
Sheryl Canter |
You Need a (Properly Configured) Firewall Firewalls protect you in ways that antivirus software cannot, but only if they're set up correctly. |
PC Magazine
February 15, 2006
Matthew D. Sarrel |
Business Body Armor All sorts of enemy combatants want to penetrate your network, but you can turn attacks aside with the right combo of hardware and tactics. |
Unix Insider
November 2000
Sandra Henry-Stocker |
Tapping on the walls Paring down your network services isn't the only way to protect your systems against attacks: port scanning can also be an effective tool. Here's how to stay one step ahead of your enemy... |
Linux Journal
December 12, 2006
Dempster & Eaton-Lee |
Excerpt from the book "Configuring IPCop Firewalls: Closing Borders with Open Source" IPCop is a firewall for the Small Office/Home Office network, which is extremely easy to use and is released under the GPL. This excerpt outlines a few common methods of deploying IPCop and the motivation behind these topologies along with descriptions of some of the features you can deploy. |
PC Magazine
August 3, 2004 |
Keep Your PC Safe Learn to wield your firewall, antivirus, and antispyware tools expertly; don't give up your PC without a fight. |
Linux Journal
April 1, 2007
Mick Bauer |
Paranoid Penguin - Linux Firewalls for Everyone Need a personal firewall, an enterprise Internet gateway or something in between? iptables does it all! |
PC World
September 1, 2000
Jeff Sengstack |
Make Your PC Hacker-Proof Our test of six personal firewalls finds the best ones for keeping uninvited guests out of your office or home system. |
Macworld
September 12, 2005
Matt Vance |
DoorStop X 1.0 Open Door Networks' software firewall has a simple interface and offers easy security customization. |
RootPrompt.org
September 13, 2000
Sander Plomp |
Amateur Fortress Building in Linux Part 2 Of course, deep down there is always some potential for catastrophic security hole - in the TCP stack, the kernel, whatever. That is inevitable. I can live with that. I just don't want it to be a biweekly event... |
InternetNews
May 20, 2011
Sean Michael Kerner |
Fedora 15 Linux Gets Dynamic Firewall Tech Linux distro debuts a new type of firewall that enables users and applications to open and close ports on the fly. |
Macworld
May 2001
Mel Beckman |
Norton Personal Firewall 1.0 Internet-protection software for individual users needs beefing up... |
PC World
March 11, 2001 |
Top 5 Firewall Utilities Protect your PC from suspicious activity on your network or the Internet... |
PC Magazine
April 18, 2007
Russell Morgan |
Essential Security: Firewalls Businesses, like homes, must be locked up tight to keep out crooks. |
PC Magazine
May 30, 2006
Neil J. Rubenking |
Comodo Personal Firewall 2.0 This sharp-looking free personal firewall outperforms many you'd pay for. |
PC World
August 2003
Stan Miastkowski |
Step-By-Step: Bulletproof Your PC With a Software Firewall For any computer with an Internet connection, a firewall is essential. Here are the setup basics. |
Macworld
May 24, 2006
Jeffery Battersby |
Mac OS X Firewall OS X's built-in firewall is enough for most users |
Entrepreneur
November 2003
Spiwak & Gros |
Safety First You know a firewall is essential in keeping your network secure. So why haven't you gotten one yet? |
PC World
April 2001
Cameron Crouch & Sean Captain |
Is Your PC Safe From the Enemy Within? Does your firewall have a hole in it? New updates fix a potentially disastrous flaw... |
RootPrompt.org
August 30, 2000 |
A Stateful Inspection of FireWall-1 An analysis of Check Point FireWall-1 vulnerabilities resulting from protocol design flaws, problems in stateful inspection, common or default misconfigurations, and minor implementation errors discovered over the past few months in the lab, and verified in real-world penetration tests. |
PC Magazine
March 16, 2005
Neil J. Rubenking |
SP2 Does Not Recognize Firewall I am using Sygate Personal Firewall Pro. After upgrading Windows XP to SP2 I get annoying pop-ups because I'm not using Windows Firewall. How can I get rid of them? |
Linux Journal
May 1, 2002
Pedro Paulo Ferreira Bueno |
Understanding IDS for Linux A discussion of the different types of intrusion detection systems and how to create signatures to identify attacks... |
PC World
December 11, 2000
Sean Captain |
Security Crusader Punches Holes in Firewalls Gibson's simple Trojan horse tricks firewalls from McAfee.com, Symantec, Sygate, and more... |
InternetNews
March 10, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
Marcus Ranum, CSO, Tenable Network Security Firewall inventor Marcus Ranum sounds off on security threats and how open source doesn't necessarily make software better. |
PC Magazine
June 22, 2005
Larry Seltzer |
Make Your Network Safer by Attacking It A number of excellent tools can help you find out where you're network is vulnerable. |
Linux Journal
March 2000
Jeff Regan |
An Introduction to Using Linux as a Multipurpose Firewall Feeling insecure? Here's a guide for getting the protection you need. |
PC World
December 2003
Scott Spanbauer |
Ultimate Network Security: How to Install a Firewall Everything you need to know about selecting and installing a firewall for your PC or network. |
PC Magazine
June 23, 2008
Matthew D. Sarrel |
How Secure Is Your Company? To protect your business, think like a thief. |
PC World
June 2004
Mary Landesman |
Bigger Threats, Better Defense Tests of 16 security tools, including firewalls, antivirus software, and anti-spyware programs, that aim to foil worms, viruses, spies, and hackers. |
Linux Journal
April 1, 2007
Dinil Divakaran |
Starting a Linux Firewall from Scratch Here are the basic steps involved in developing a firewall from scratch, using tools in Linux. |
PC Magazine
February 2, 2005
Robert P. Lipschutz |
Lock Down Your Network When it comes to security, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) often find themselves in an uncomfortable position. They share many of the same security fears that threaten multinational enterprises. |
RootPrompt.org
September 11, 2000 |
They Can't Crack What They Can't Find By using the firewalling tools built into the Linux kernel it is possible to make a desktop machine virtually disappear from the crackers' view... |
Macworld
May 23, 2006
Jeffery Battersby |
Norton Personal Firewall 3.0.3 Easy configuration option for the firewall faint of heart |
PC Magazine
October 1, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Personal Firewall--Don't Surf Without It To gauge the effectiveness of two popular firewall packages, we took the gloves off and attacked the firewall process using techniques available to a malicious program. McAfee Personal Firewall Plus 6.0... Norton Personal Firewall 2005... |
PC Magazine
September 21, 2004 |
NAT Enough? A home router is not a complete security solution. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2005 |
Product Watch - Lightspeed Firewall Lightspeed Firewall provides well-integrated, multiple levels of security to create a comprehensive firewall. |
Macworld
June 2001
Mel Beckman |
Who's There Firewall Advisor 1.0 Firewall-log analyzer watches your back... |
PC Magazine
July 19, 2007
Matthew D. Sarrel |
Astaro Security Gateway 120 (Updated) The Astaro Security Gateway 120 will keep your small business safe, but it's strangely expensive for a product built on an open-source foundation. |
InternetNews
June 22, 2007
Clint Boulton |
Sneaky Web Apps to Get The Stealth Treatment Startup Palo Alto Networks proposes a new firewall for detecting sneaky Web 2.0 applications and threats. |
PC Magazine
June 22, 2004
Robert P. Lipschutz |
Business Security Our buying guide sorts out the technologies and explains the best ways to protect yourself. |
PC World
April 2001
Andrew Brandt |
Hide Your PC From Prying Internet Eyes Biodata Information Technology's Sphinx PC Firewall and SonicWall's Tele2 Internet Security Appliance... |
PC Magazine
July 13, 2005
Neil J. Rubenking et al. |
ZoneAlarm Security Suite 6.0 A look at the beta of the next version of ZoneAlarm shows a security tool that can finally stop spyware before it's too late... Panda Platinum 2005 Internet Security... Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2005... ZASuite 5.5... |
PC Magazine
February 2, 2005
Gottesman & Karagiannis |
A False Sense of Security Only 85 percent of the AOL/NCSA survey respondents were running antivirus software. Worse, while 71 percent of those people thought they were updating their protection at least weekly (including automatic updates), barely half of them actually were. |
Wall Street & Technology
January 5, 2005
David Tan |
Combating Blended Threats Security experts agree that blended threats will continue to grow in frequency, complexity and severity. |
PC Magazine
November 2, 2005
Seltzer Rubenking |
The Zero-Day Attack StarForce's Personal Safe'n'Sec... Prevx Pro 2005... Panda's TruPrevent... PivX preEmpt... Tips for installing behavior blocking software... ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 6... McAfee Internet Security Suite 2006... BitDefender 9 Internet Security... Panda Platinum 2006 Internet Security... Norton Internet Security 2006... Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2006... |
PC Magazine
July 16, 2007
Neil J. Rubenking |
Yoggie Pico Personal We love the idea: enterprise-style security on a tiny, dedicated computer. The question is, does it work? |
Macworld
May 24, 2006
Jeffery Battersby |
DoorStop X Security Suite Firewall add-on makes securing your Mac easy |
