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A Source Address Filtering Firewall to Defend Against Denial of Service Attacks
White Papers This paper proposes a firewall mechanism that tries to filter off the malicious packets when the protected network is under DoS attacks. The proposed firewall mechanism can be used to protect both wired and wireless networks.
[June 30, 2008, 0:53]
Windows XP Service Pack 2: a first look review
Reviews With a firewall -- which for XP users with Service Pack 2 is installed by default -- and an anti-virus program (which does not come with Windows XP), most attacks on your computer can be repelled. The firewall now protects the computer against...
[March 23, 2004, 23:30]
Web attacks: Are ISPs doing enough?
News In the week following the attacks on major Web sites, personal firewall maker Network ICE has seen requests for its product, called BlackICE, skyrocket by 30 to 50 percent. Rival Zone Labs, maker of a free firewall called ZoneAlarm, has seen 400...
[February 22, 2000, 9:13]
Has your PC been hijacked?
News Spooked by last week's attacks, the Waterside Productions literary agent downloaded Zone Labs' free firewall, ZoneAlarm 2.0, and installed the electronic gate onto his DSL-connected PC. One subscriber to broadband, Internet service provider...
[February 17, 2000, 9:21]
Could Symantec have saved you from Slammer?
News DeepSight integrates data automatically gathered from nearly 20,000 of Symantec's partners' firewall and IDS programs with the aim of spotting emerging attacks and alerting administrators of a current real-world threat, often before their...
[March 3, 2003, 11:03]
Researchers redefine the internet blacklist
News DShield and similar sites offer firewall filters enabling administrators to block a list of the internet's worst attackers, known as a 'global worst-offenders list' (GWOL), but this may contain many attacks that the network will simply never...
[July 25, 2008, 16:03]
ADSL and the opportunistic hackers
News In fact BT's rollout of ADSL -- BTOpenworld -- will provide firewall security for both business and individual users. Tony Westbrook investigates the perils of an 'always on' Internet connection and decides its high time he set up his own personal...
[May 8, 2000, 16:32]
Microsoft fixes holes in Server Message Block
News Using a firewall and having a minimum number of ports open can help protect networks against attacks, the company said. Blocking TCP ports 139 and 445 at the firewall will help protect systems that are behind that firewall from attempts to exploit...
[January 14, 2009, 12:22]
The Net's new neighbourhood watch
News It's a recipe for paranoia: take a garden-variety PC, connect it to the Internet over a high-speed line, and add a personal firewall. I set this up as a clearinghouse of the firewall logs. It was just seeing on my own firewall at home -- seeing how...
[December 6, 2000, 12:09]
Beta XP update ready for download
News The update includes a reworked firewall component, now dubbed Windows Firewall, that will be turned on by default to protect PCs from outside threats. The service pack has a number of security updates aimed at preventing exploitation of "buffer...
[December 19, 2003, 9:15]
Microsoft readies XP update
News Among the security improvements in Service Pack 2 are a beefed-up version of Windows Firewall, previously called Internet Connection Firewall, and software designed to block pop-up ads and prevent the unintended downloading and installation of...
[December 12, 2003, 8:15]
Help & HowTo: Slammer
News For users who have McAfee Desktop Firewall running on their SQL servers, simply create a rule that blocks incoming UDP port 1434. Disable firewall's SQL Server ports. To prevent external attacks from exploiting this vulnerability, administrators...
[January 27, 2003, 10:18]
Microsoft issues eight Windows fixes
News The threat to Windows XP is mitigated because of its firewall and different networking technology, Budd said. It is a key part of Windows that can't be turned off or easily protected by a firewall, Sarwate said.
[November 15, 2006, 9:39]
Windows API 'flaw' sparks security debate
News Escalating user privileges requires the presence of an application that itself uses high privileges, such as a virus scanner or personal firewall. For example, if a personal firewall allowed only Internet Explorer access to a company's network, the...
[August 8, 2002, 13:18]
Cisco IDS Solution
White Papers Port scans and denial-of-service attacks are an ongoing threat, and a firewall cannot protect against them. However, intrusion detection and protection tools are critical components of a defense-in-depth security solution that can identify...
[February 7, 2005, 2:00]
Academic breaks the Great Firewall of China
News Computer experts from the University of Cambridge claim not only to have breached the Great Firewall of China, but have found a way to use the firewall to launch denial of service attacks against specific IP addresses in the country.
[July 3, 2006, 13:00]
ServerDefender AI
Downloads Prevent common, dangerous Web hacker attacks (like SQL injection, buffer overflows, cross-site scripting and request forgery, directory traversal, zero-day, brute force, and denial of service attacks) with this low-cost Microsoft IIS Web...
[December 23, 2008, 4:29]
MCS Firewall
Downloads MCS Firewall helps block unauthorized communication from hackers, unknown computers, malicious code, denial-of-service attacks and remote-control Trojans left by viruses. Automatically denies outbound Internet access to malicious applications that...
[May 28, 2005, 16:57]
The Voice Proxy Firewall Provides an Integrated Security Solution for IP Telephony Service Providers
White Papers Secondly, once they’ve solved the problem of firewall traversal, how do they protect the network against service disruption problems such as denial of service attacks, voice degradation via packet flooding, and theft of services?
[August 27, 2003, 5:41]
BrickHouse
Downloads BrickHouse also helps you use your firewall to guard against denial of service or resource-based Internet attacks. Network attacks will bounce off the firewall to prevent your computer from slowing down or crashing.BrickHouse provides a simple and...
[February 12, 2003, 0:08]
