Serious Security Vulnerabilities in Outpost Firewall Pro & Lavasoft Personal Firewall

April 22nd, 2006 I am unable to use ZoneAlarm Personal Firewall as it proved incompatible with Asrock Motherboard. So I switched to Agnitum Personal Firewall.

May 23rd, 2006 I have been playing with the idea of a Java Firewall. So far I have implemented a fully functional port blocker using port hijacking.

April 17th, 2006 I found a super-simple way to block access to external email providers like GMail or HotMail or Yahoo Mail in firewall. The process while trivial to configure has a caveat.

January 6th, 2009 Most of you are overconfident about your computer security unless the trojans, malwares or spyware attacks take you by surprise. Well, but only a little of what you fancy does you good.

July 20th, 2009 Probably you know it needs a firewall program to use the Internet safely. Firewall not only protects you against attacks from the Internet, it also informs you when programs installed on your computer are trying to phone home and enable you to prevent hackers  from accessing your system.

April 29th, 2006 In an interesting move Microsoft decided to turn off outbound filtering of inbuilt Firewall in Vista by default. Outbound filtering for applications will configurable by enterprise administrators through Group Policy.

September 9th, 2007 I was looking for the wiki of a popular Linux based firewall site. The main url was 404, so I went up one level hoping to find a new url.

January 15th, 2007 I wanted a seamless procedure to update web sites and web applications without compromising security. The development server is under a firewall and so is the production server.

October 23rd, 2007 Shorewall is an excellent free linux firewall which provides unparalleled level of fine grained control. It not only acts as a firewall and Gateway, it also supports DMZ, IP Masquerading (NAT & SNAT), Proxy ARP and more.

November 23rd, 2007 I learned it the hard way. Our gateway machine with firewall (shorewall) has multiple ADSL connections configured with load balancing for more bandwidth and transparent fail-over.

July 8th, 2005 After recent reports of several critical security vulnerabilities of PHP based software. I decided to take a closer look at the current state of security with PHP based products.

May 3rd, 2006 The security vulnerabilities addressed are: Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting, Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information and Denial of Service. Ubuntu has issued an update for thunderbird.

August 10th, 2006 I have never seen them so concerned about computer vulnerability from Microsoft Windows software. Everyone knows Windows OS is vulnerable by default.

September 7th, 2007 I am wading through tons of material to improve my knowledge of Linux networking in general and more specifically to configure our firewalls properly and routing for multiple uplink providers with traffic shaping and failover. My earlier attempt to shortcut with eBox failed so this time I am going all the way.

August 7th, 2008 WordPress wins the dubious distinction of Mass 0wnage Pwnie Award for an unbelievable number of WordPress vulnerabilities, over 140 as of today. It seems like hardly a week goes by without a new vulnerability in WordPress or one of its many plugins.