Touted as "the open source firewall," you'd expect T.REX Firewall to be completely open source. But for the latest release of the product (version 2), no source is available. The firewall itself is a ...

There are many government agencies both in the U.S. and around the world who restrict their employees from visiting social networking sites (SNS) through the use of a firewall filter. Anyone care to ...

Once upon a time the thought of a firewalled, cordoned, and censored web was enough to send chills up the spine of any internet user. As the years have passed, however, our sentiment has softened. A ...

Hackers will often hide their identities while attempting to gain unauthorized access to vulnerable servers. If a hacker is using an anonymous proxy server, you can block access via the Windows ...

Consider the venerable Web proxy—back when the Internet was new to most of us, setting up a Web proxy was a convenient way to grant users of an otherwise non-Internet-connected network access to the ...

At first glance, stateful packet filtering appears to have conquered the firewall world, both in terms of market share and mind share. The list of products based on stateful packet filtering is a long ...

I'm trying to troubleshoot an issue we're having, and I'm wondering if it's possible that a misconfigured firewall or proxy could be passing the private IP of a system as the source address to an ...