While the firewall in OS X is meant to be straightforward and simple, the idea of which settings are preferred can be a little confusing. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for ...

With all the viruses, keyloggers, and other malware prowling the computing industry, it’s essential to arm your devices with cybersecurity tools. By helping you configure hardened traffic rules to ...

You don’t have to travel far or pay a fee to start protecting your Mac from break-ins. Take a quick trip to the Sharing pane in your Mac’s System Preferences, and there, with the click of a mouse ...

I have a hardware firewall - 2 years old, but no longer being used because the manufacturer (Gsec1) went into liquidation last year & there are therefore no more updates to it released.<BR><BR>It did ...

Juniper revised the list of ScreenOS versions that contain a backdoor allowing attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrative access to NetScreen enterprise firewall devices. The ...

OS X’s built-in firewall is good enough to protect most Mac users from hacker attacks. But it doesn’t have many bells and whistles and isn’t very easy to customize. So to find out whether you can get ...

Palo Alto Networks (PAN) on April 14 released hotfixes to address a maximum severity zero-day bug in multiple versions of its PAN-OS software that a threat actor is using to deploy a novel Python ...

In the next year or two, we're going to be getting a 10gbe connection into our University's network ring. This ring connects the University campuses and also peers with I2, Cogent, AT&T, and dozens of ...

Firewall audits can help prove how secure a network actually is -- as opposed to how secure your customer thinks it is. Here, Hamelin, chief security architect at Tufin Technologies, provider of ...

Linux is highly secure, but you should still have a firewall. You should know if your ISP's hardware (gateway) uses a firewall. One of the easiest Linux firewalls is UFW and its GUI sidekick, GUFW.