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I built a firewall that blocks my IoT devices from phoning home

An off-duty U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot Porter on New Year’s Eve. Los Angeles civil ...
CRN

5 Things To Know About The Latest Firewall, VPN Attacks

Cisco’s Talos research team says it’s monitoring a ‘global increase in brute-force attacks’ against targets including VPN services, while an exploit has been released for a critical vulnerability in ...

Palo Alto patches worrying security issue which could crash your firewall without logging in

Palo Alto patched CVE-2026-0227, a DoS flaw in GlobalProtect Gateway and Portal Vulnerability could force firewalls into ...
Ars Technica

Simple man asks simple questions about firewalls, NICs, etc.

I know people must have asked and had these questions answered before. <P>1) I have one home built computer, and am about to build one more and I will soon get DSL (through Telocity at 1.5 down/128K ...
Ars Technica

Firewall Rules for a newbie

I just installed PM firewall on my mandrake 8.2 machine. I know nothing about firewalls and I was wondering if anyone had a suggestion as to what types of firewall rules I might need. The machine is ...
Houston Chronicle

The Difference Between a Hardware Firewall and a Software Firewall

Firewalls, both hardware and software, protect computers from hackers and other online threats by blocking dangerous pieces of data from reaching the system. While hardware firewalls offer ...
ZDNet

Firewalls - back to basics

A firewall is software or hardware that sits between two networks -- typically, between your LAN and the Internet -- and allows some sorts of network traffic through while preventing others. It works ...
ZDNet

Father of firewall: Security's all about attention to detail

newsmaker Marcus J. Ranum is a world-renowned expert and innovator on IT security, whose pragmatic approach is lauded by industry peers. Two decades ago he designed and implemented Digital Equipment ...