An improved firewall was one of the 300-plus features Apple touted before the release of Leopard, but a mix of design choices and functionality changes reduces its effectiveness compared to the ...

Secure Computing Corp. has unveiled a hybrid firewall designed to give clients more protection against Web threats. Typically, corporate firewalls that protect against network-based attacks aren't ...

In Part 1 of this tutorial series, we configured Windows to accept remote desktop connections, so we can log into and use a PC anywhere in the World with Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection client ...

Can you explain the differences between a hardware and software firewall? From what I can gather, pretty much all routers come with built-in firewalls, so do I really need to install firewall software ...

Secure Computing this week plans to unveil a line of firewalls that combines the best features of two separate lines and at the high end doubles to 1 million the maximum number of simultaneous ...

The importance of a firewall cannot be over-emphasized. Firewalls, no doubt, are one of the most important components of your computer (network). A Firewall can block threats that your Antivirus may ...

The firewall is one of the most important security features in a computer environment. In the classic sense, a firewall is set up on an appliance, such as a computer that fulfills just a single, ...

It's become fashionable for every organization that runs a cluster of VMware servers to talk about running a "private cloud." But for this change in terminology to mean something, technology managers ...

While the general consensus regarding whether a Mac is more secure than Windows leans toward Apple’s system, it doesn’t mean a Mac is still unable to be affected by hackers and malware; it's still ...

After giving top-rated Norton Personal Firewall a try, I decided to ditch it because it inexplicably stymied my Net surfing. My connection wasn't interrupted, but pages just stopped loading. A brief ...

The OS X firewall is a useful and important security feature, and we recommend people enable as many of its features as possible to help ward off the possibility of attacks, especially when connected ...