traffic such as firewalls in news

Security threats revealed: Beware the metasploit

News A major threat is browser scripting attacks, which use web browsers to get through corporate firewalls, allowing access to confidential information. Website attacks, which plant browser exploits to compromise users, are... [09 Apr 2008]

CIO Jury: IT defences prepared for World Cup

News Nicholas Evans, European IT director at Key Equipment Finance, said: "Our firewalls already block most areas of websites with streaming media and we still have the video hooked up, the surround sound and projector from... [07 Jun 2006]

Gartner: Don't believe the tech security myths

News If mobile workers need "softphones" - software that simulates a real phone - ensure their notebooks are protected by personal firewalls and other mechanisms, he said. When combined with best practices for mobile... [25 Jul 2005]

Juniper buys IP start-up for $67.5m

News As a result, firewalls do not allow VoIP traffic to come into a corporate network from an outside network. These devices, which sit in a telephone operator's network, manage the handoff... [30 Mar 2005]

Microsoft get serious about business IM

News With today's media traffic, there are challenges when trying to penetrate firewalls and NATS," he said. The two most troublesome are firewalls, which create a boundary between two... [07 Mar 2005]

Virus warning: Playboy bunny, not so funny

News The worm also attempts to attack a series of firewalls and antivirus settings on an infected machine. According to Sophos the virus waits until the first day of every month and then will attempt to launch a... [10 Dec 2004]

Globix offers protection against brute force net attacks

News We view intrusion detection systems as smart firewalls, so for the past nine months we've been working with Top Layer and other partners. Other threats include Syn floods and HTTP based worms, leading... [21 Jul 2004]

Browser-based attacks top security fears

News Traditional firewalls examine traffic coming into the network, but guarding against browser attacks requires that traffic leaving the network also be inspected. Because the attacks... [13 Apr 2004]

MSBlast worm outbreak 'infected 8 million PCs'

News Typically, researchers try to estimate the size of a worm epidemic by collecting data from the records of network devices, such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems. Our internet... [05 Apr 2004]

Firewalls await the enemy within

News Distributed firewalls allow network administrators to monitor real-time traffic over the LAN by sending reports back to the administrators' PC. David Lancaster, technical director at Network Designers,... [08 Dec 2000]

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