SuSE, a German seller of the Linux operating system, has released a new version of software for protective firewalls that can't be tampered with. Firewalls, though not invulnerable, are used to try to ...

Assistant Professor Yupeng Zhang and his team, along with researchers from the University of California, Irvine, received a ...

Q: Should my company install a software firewall, or buy a dedicated hardware device for that function? A: As I tell my customers, deciding which type of firewall to use depends on what you're trying ...

Gil Shwed built the world's biggest seller of security software for corporate paranoiacs. Now he wants to protect you at home and on the road. Four years go virtually unmentioned in the official ...

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 ...

It my recent story on "Patching the Internet" a discussion on how Dan Kaminsky broke, then subsequently helped fix DNS and the Internet, a lot of discussion centered around how the patch was breaking ...

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. announced that its Quantum Firewall Software R82 has achieved Common Criteria EAL4+ certification, reinforcing its credibility as a security solution for ...

“Check Point continues to deliver AI Security innovations at the exact moment customers need them,” said Chris Konrad, Vice President, Global Cyber, World Wide Technology. “Their AI-driven security ...

A firewall that is provided by software. It often refers to a personal firewall in a user's computer, but software firewalls may be installed in servers as well. Contrast with hardware firewall. See ...

Free firewalls offer the outbound monitoring that's missing in XP's firewall and off by default (and impractical) in Vista, but third-party tools may create problems of their own. Dennis O'Reilly ...

Having a properly configured firewall on your computer is an important part of staying safe online, but having one on your ...

A firewall is every bit as critical to security as an anti-virus program. Firewalls stop malware from spreading to a network and defend against hackers attempting to infiltrate a targeted system.