Touted as "the open source firewall," you'd expect T.REX Firewall to be completely open source. But for the latest release of the product (version 2), no source is available. The firewall itself is a ...

Hackers will often hide their identities while attempting to gain unauthorized access to vulnerable servers. If a hacker is using an anonymous proxy server, you can block access via the Windows ...

Learn how to keep your network secure without slowing it down or causing latency. Understand everything from unified threat management (UTM) and proxys to purchasing advice and firewall placement.

Palo's published numbers are the most truthful out of any other firewall vendor's specifications that I've seen and yes it doesn't matter what security inspections you have turned on as the ...

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If you're upgrading your firewall, or installing one on your network for the first time, you'll discover that firewall technology has changed a lot in the last several years. How do you select one ...

There are many government agencies both in the U.S. and around the world who restrict their employees from visiting social networking sites (SNS) through the use of a firewall filter. Anyone care to ...

Learn how firewalls have progressed from simple packet filtering to more sophisticated application-level filtering. Webopedia.com defines a firewall as “a system designed to prevent unauthorized ...

Windows only: Corporate firewall got you down? No Facebook behind your school's filter? FreeProxy is a simple proxy tool for routing your browsing through your home computer. At the computer and ...

I'm trying to troubleshoot an issue we're having, and I'm wondering if it's possible that a misconfigured firewall or proxy could be passing the private IP of a system as the source address to an ...