It’s tough enough defending the IT perimeter against spyware, viruses, worms and unauthorized intrusions. But no matter how good their defenses are, companies still risk getting hurt by those they ...

Home PC users are starting to catch on that surfing the Net requires a certain level of protection, security software makers say. "Folks are starting to see that firewalls are as important as ...

Personal firewalls are very ingenious little pieces of software or hardware that protect machines (or in some cases – small networks) from attacks. Two specific implementation situations exist in the ...

Lavasoft Personal Firewall 3.0 is a revamped-interface version ofLavasoft’s firewall suite. Better known for its antivirus software,Lavasoft offers many other security programs, and this is one ofthem ...

Other things have changed, too. Today, standalone firewall products are more the exception than the rule. I took a look at five major firewalls on the market today, and almost everything that came my ...

Hackers are now targeting individual Internet users and their unprotected home computers for nefarious purposes, such as launching denial-of-service attacks. This makes firewall protection for any ...

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

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 ...

Software installed in a user's computer that offers protection against unwanted intrusion and attacks coming from the Internet. Personal firewalls are available from numerous security vendors, and ...