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Devil-Linux 1.6.0 RC2 Has Linux Kernel 3.2.4

Devil-Linux, a distribution created by IT administrators for IT administrators which is primarily used as a router/firewall, is now at version 1.6.0 RC2. The most important change in Devil-Linux 1.6.0 RC2 is the introduction of a new Linux kernel, version 3.2.4, an update from the previous RC version, which had Linux...

8 February 2012
03:14 GMT

Online Armor++ Gets Assimilated by Emsisoft Anti-Malware

Subscribers to Emsisoft newsletter should know by now that Online Armor++ will no longer be developed as an individual application, but as part of a bigger picture, called Emsisoft Internet Security Pack. As such, starting January 1st Online Armor++ is no longer available. That is not to say that support for the exi...

3 January 2012
12:21 GMT

PfSense 2.0.1 Officially Announced

PfSense, a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a firewall and router, is now at version 2.0.1. PfSense 2.0.1 is a maintenance release and is recommended for all installations. Users can upgrade from any previous release directly to version 2.0.1.The changelog is quite large and it...

21 December 2011
09:20 GMT

Untangle Gateway Platform 9.1.0 Released

Untangle Gateway Platform, a Linux-based network gateway with pluggable modules for network applications like spam blocking, web filtering, anti-virus, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention, VPN, SSL VPN, and firewall, is now at version 9.1.0. Untangle Gateway Platform 9.1.0 bring a ton of changes and updates. We'l...

13 December 2011
06:10 GMT

Download Avast 6.0.1367 Stable

The official release of the latest line of avast! products has been announced. The list of the most important changes in the new version, 6.0.1367, has not been modified at all, except for a line vaguely informing of “various other security and stability related fixes”. However, there were reports about ...

29 November 2011
04:26 GMT

Avast 6.0.1351 Beta Realeased

All avast! editions have been updated to a new beta version, although the Czech developer has not announced the move officially just yet. The official release is planned for the next days. However, you can download the latest beta for avast! Free, Pro and Internet Security, as the company’s CTO, Ondřej Vlček, ...

12 November 2011
06:17 GMT

Minor Update for Emsisoft Online Armor Firewall

Emsi Software incremented the build number only by two notches today for its Online Armor Firewall, bringing it to version 5.1.1.1395. It is not a spectacular build, but a minor one that takes care of an issue with certification verification. The information about the bug is scarce, but the changelog of the applicat...

1 November 2011
11:11 GMT

ESET Smart Security 5 Review

Smart Security is the most comprehensive computer security solution ESET offers home users. It is designed to make of your PC a malware-free environment, and prevent threats from nesting in the system. Additional security layers include spam filtering, firewall protection and parental controls.The bundle comes w...

17 October 2011
15:05 GMT

Panda Internet Security 2012 Review

Panda Internet Security 2012 comes as a complete protection solution, ready to tackle all sorts of digital threats and prevent sensitive information from leaking outside the system. The price for having the suite protecting your machine for one year is $60.99 (€49,99). Installation is not a complicated process ...

6 October 2011
17:58 GMT

Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 Review

The latest Kaspersky Internet Security brings in a new layout, fit for any sort of user. It features comprehensive protection on all fronts and carries a bag of tools designed for optimizing your PC’s performance. It comes at a price of $59.95 (€45) and despite being a protection suite installation is a b...

3 October 2011
11:44 GMT

Outpost Security Suite Pro 7.5

Agnitum is better known for its firewall rather than anti-malware protection. With the recent release of a new product line, our focus shifted towards Outpost Security Suite Pro, the protection bundle which encompasses all the layers of protection developed by the company. The price of this hefty suite is regularly ...

25 July 2011
11:01 GMT

avast! Internet Security 6

While avast! Internet Security is not the flagship product of AVAST, the suite incorporates the full spectrum of security layers the Czech company offers to home users.We’ve already dealt with the free edition of the antimalware, which shows some nifty features yet to be seen even in similar paid products....

6 June 2011
14:31 GMT

Panda Global Protection 2012

The 2012 line of security products from Panda has just been released. The same three solutions are available from the Spanish developer, namely the Antivirus Pro, which offers essential protection, the Internet Security suite, designed to keep your system safe from online threats and Global Protection bundle, built t...

6 June 2011
02:31 GMT

Windows Firewall Control

Few people have ventured to the advanced settings panel of the built-in firewall in Windows; defining the rules to block specific connection is not a tough task, but it can waste more time than you are willing to allot for the job. Windows Firewall Control has been designed as a simple way to gain access to frequentl...

24 May 2011
11:08 GMT

Online Armor - Premium Firewall

Each security suite these days has a firewall module designed to block any sort of inbound/outbound connection taking place behind the users’ back. Online Armor has been around for quite a while and proved from earlier stages of development that it is a reliable instrument capable to intercept surreptitious com...

15 May 2011
14:01 GMT

Softpedia Giveaways 2011: 20 Licenses for Online Armor Premium

Generally it’s power users that recognize the importance of a firewall on the system. But with Online Armor from Emsisoft average users can benefit from the protection of a top notch firewall.We’re putting up 20 licenses and, as usual, all you have to do is post a witty comment relating to the software. T...

14 May 2011
15:01 GMT

Panda Global Protection 2011

Security suites are designed as a comprehensive approach to the security of home users and Panda Global Protection fits right into this category. It sports no less than six protection modules and a bunch of maintenance tools to keep your system in good shape. Anti-malware protection, firewall, identity protection, v...

27 December 2010
08:41 GMT

Softpedia Exclusive Interview: Emsisoft Takes Over Online Armor

Earlier today, we reported that Emsi Software had sealed the deal to take over renowned firewall solution Online Armor from Tall Emu. At that point in time, no details about the move were known, save what the company had made public through their newsletter service.We contacted Tall Emu CEO Mike Nash and Emsi Softwar...

1 July 2010
10:55 GMT

Emsi Software to Develop Online Armor

Emsi Software has announced today both on Twitter and through their newsletter service that they have taken over all support and development of Online Armor, the highly acclaimed firewall. The antivirus developer made the move after two years of marketing and selling of the Australian firewall to the German-speaking ...

1 July 2010
07:39 GMT

FireWall Blocking FaceTime - Apple Has You Covered

Although FaceTime video calling will “just work” with most Wi-Fi networks, corporations and educational institutions may use a FireWall for increased security, blocking such kind of Internet traffic, Apple notes in a new KB article on its Support site. For those who are on a Wi-Fi network that is behind a...

28 June 2010
06:55 GMT

Oracle Acquires British Database Security Firm

Oracle's Vice President of Database Security, Vipin Samar published an open letter on Oracle's site yesterday, May 20 2010, announcing the company's intention of buying database security firm Secerno. Started after a research project at Oxford University's Computing Laboratory, the company offers ...

21 May 2010
10:23 GMT

Vyatta 6.0 Released

Vyatta has released the latest version of its router/firewall Linux operating system. Vyatta 6.0 is now ready for networking experts and businesses looking for an open-source alternative to put it through its paces. A big feature in this release is the new Remote Access API, which allows developers to create tools fo...

31 March 2010
15:11 GMT

AVG Internet Security 9 (II)

Anti-SpamAs any respectable security suite, AVG’s product offers protection against the nagging spam messages reaching our inbox. Despite an email client’s set of rules for filtering your messages so that the inbox folder receives as little unwanted mails as possible, redirecting them to the junk folder i...

29 January 2010
11:11 GMT

AVG Internet Security 9 (III)

LinkScannerThe suite approaches the security of your computer from all angles, minimizing the threat risk as much as possible. With LinkScanner, AVG allows you to be informed of the trust-level of the websites you decide to navigate to after submitting a search query to the most popular search engines today (Google, ...

29 January 2010
11:11 GMT

Endian Firewall 2.3 Includes Lots of New Features

On October 27th, Christian Graffer from the Endian team proudly announced the immediate availability of the Endian Firewall Community 2.3 Linux-based operating system. The new version includes a lot of bug fixes, improvements and many new and breathtaking features. We, at the Softpedia Labs, took the 2.3 release for ...

28 October 2009
07:45 GMT

75% Off Online Armor Premium's Price

Firewalling your computer used to be a money-bleeding task because all the products destined to monitor and prevent installed applications receive or send information from or outside your computer were commodities. Not anymore, as serious developers offer users such protection for free, or, as it is the case of Tall ...

18 August 2009
02:59 GMT

Shield Up with Online Armor

Many users are so afraid of firewalls that the simple idea of installing, going through all the configuration settings and having to deal with such a granular control that 80% of the terms have to be looked up discourages them even before the kit is downloaded. In some cases the first thing the application does is to...

18 August 2009
02:41 GMT

Internet Traffic Monitoring

Good news is coming towards those in need of an application traffic monitoring tool with the release of the third beta of NetLimiter. Don't stress yourselves too much about the beta label because this issue of NetLimiter is rock steady, with all major bugs being fixed.Users of 64- and 32-bit systems will be able...

11 August 2009
08:59 GMT

Iranian Anti-Protest Firewall Ignores Online Gaming

After the disputed election results and massive anti-establishment demonstrations that have drawn the attention of the entire world, the streets of Teheran and other big Iranian cities are quieter now as the government reacted with violence, dissuading protesters from taking to the streets. A similar blockade was ini...

26 June 2009
05:44 GMT

Cybercrooks Take Advantage of Symantec PIFTS.EXE Fuss

An unsigned component called pifts.exe that was pushed by Symantec to its customers created quite a stir on the Internet yesterday, even raising several conspiracy theories. The malware distributors did not miss the chance to target the massive amount of users searching for information about the curious file and inje...

11 March 2009
07:02 GMT

Barracuda Web Application Firewall 860 and 960 Launched

Barracuda Networks Inc, a well-known company in the field of email and Web security appliances, has recently launched the Barracuda Web Application Firewall 860 and 960 addressed to enterprises and large companies looking for affordable ways to secure Web apps, such as websites or XML Web Services. The new product co...

5 March 2009
04:34 GMT

The 'Great Aussie Wall' Spawns Harsh Criticism

Earlier this year, the Australian government proposed the introduction of a new system of limiting children's access to sites with inappropriate content on the Web, a mandatory filter that would basically block these sites. Critics, including civil rights movements, consumers, Internet engineers and providers, a...

28 December 2008
02:47 GMT

Download Free ZoneAlarm Pro 2009

ZoneAlarm Pro 2009 is available for download for free, straight from the company's official website. The product, which normally comes with a price tag of $29.95 for a one year subscription, is offered to users at absolutely no charge, in order to celebrate the 15th birthday of Check Point Software's firewa...

18 November 2008
11:11 GMT

Thailand Builds National Firewall to Block Offensive Websites

Thailand's Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (ITC) announced that it is planning to invest between $3-$15 million in order to build a firewall solution aimed at blocking websites with content deemed as offensive, especially the ones that denigrate the monarchy, at a national level. The firewa...

3 November 2008
08:16 GMT

Secure Computing to Make Strategic Acquisition

Secure Computing is to acquire Securify, a startup focused on identity-based monitoring solutions. The value of the acquisition is of approximately $15 million but, aside from this amount, Securify is also bound to deliver an earn-out of $5 million once the transaction takes place. The contract will probabl...

5 September 2008
04:31 GMT

10 Security Tips from BitDefender

BitDefender has decided to publish a list with the ten elements considered to be the most important in users' fight against malware. All the recommendations have the same bedrock – caution, which can save one a lot of trouble. The first measure has to do with the fact that no one should base thei...

29 August 2008
09:30 GMT

Email Security Threatened by DNS Flaw

Dan Kaminsky is the IOActive specialist whose speech was the most anticipated at this year's Black Hat hacker conference held in Las Vegas. This happened because, one month ago, Kaminsky announced that he had discovered a DNS flaw that employed completely new methods to steal data and affect users' connecti...

7 August 2008
08:34 GMT

Gibraltar Firewall 2.6 Launched

Gibraltar Firewall 2.6, a Linux firewall distribution based on Debian, was launched yesterday as announced by Rene Mayrhofer. This will be the last release that will use the Linux kernel 2.4, as the next Gibraltar editions will use the 2.6 kernel. Among other things, this edition of Gibraltar offers improved traffic ...

18 July 2008
06:52 GMT

'Anti-Virus? Unnecessary!" Some People Think

A new study conducted by AusCERT revealed that some users simply ignore the basic security measures which should protect them and their computers while connected to the Internet. The research included 1,001 Australia residents and was made with the help of Nielsen. According to the findings, no less than 95 percent o...

20 May 2008
06:49 GMT

F-Secure Debuts Internet Security 2009 Beta

F-Secure has just rolled out Internet Security 2009 Beta 8.30 build 139 which represents an all-in-one solution supposed to assure you that no malicious file reaches your computer. The application incorporates multiple security utilities, as it follows: anti-virus, Anti-spyware, Email Scanning and Web Traffic Scannin...

30 April 2008
11:08 GMT

Comodo Firewall Pro Needs Patches, Too

Comodo Firewall Pro, a freeware firewall which attracted quite a large audience, needs to be updated as soon as possible in order to avoid a new vulnerability spotted in older versions. Security company Secunia rated the flaw as not critical, but it stated that a successful exploit of the flaw could cause a Denial of...

30 April 2008
04:32 GMT

Vyatta 4.0 Released

Vyatta Inc - the company that builds commercially supported, open-source networking solutions that provide an alternative to over-priced, inflexible products from proprietary vendors - announced yesterday the immediate availability of the fourth major release of their Open Source Linux distribution, Vyatta 4.0."Vyatt...

22 April 2008
02:44 GMT

Chinese Internet Users Can Tunnel Out of the Censorship Wall

The information available on the Internet is not equally available in all the world's regions, and the state of facts in China is the best example of how a government filters the data users can have access to. Popular sites like Youtube and Wikipedia are only two of the many web addresses that get blocked by mil...

9 April 2008
04:51 GMT

Banks Not Responsible for Your Useless Antivirus!

There are so many hacked online bank accounts that banks all over the world start getting tired of helping, recovering and restoring users' accounts just because they were so naive to disclose their login credentials or install useless security products. Because of that, the British Bankers' Association (BB...

4 April 2008
04:27 GMT

pfSense 1.2 - Improved CARP Input Validation

The pfSense development team announced the availability of pfSense 1.2, a m0n0wall-derived operating system. After more than 16 months of work, since the 1.0 release, this version brings you many new features and bugfixes.Here are the highlights of pfSense 1.2:- Improve CARP input validation - GUI previously allowed ...

26 February 2008
06:30 GMT

Intel Plans on Shipping Hardware Security-Enabled Chipsets

Hardware-enabled security devices are quite storming the IT industry fronts lately. Ranging from miscellaneous biometric security devices (such as fingerprint readers or iris scanners) to hardware-based firewall solutions, they offer much better protection than any software-based equivalent on the market. Lenovo was ...

14 February 2008
04:36 GMT

Kaspersky: Windows Vista Firewall Is Full of Leaks

According to Microsoft, Window Vista is the most secure Windows operating system available on the market. The Redmond company has now been shy about downplaying the relevance of previous Windows iterations in order to push Vista to the foreground in terms of security. It is in fact an old drum that Microsoft has been...

27 December 2007
12:12 GMT

ZoneAlarm Now Deploys Browser Toolbar

In case you're not one of those tech-savvy users, you probably leave most options included in the programs' installation files unchanged, because the 'developer often knows what's better for you'. But, what if you're asked to install additional programs such as browser toolbars that com...

18 December 2007
05:40 GMT

Yet Another Utility to Test Your Computer's Security

A new research conducted by Verizon revealed that most consumers were not sure if their computer was protected, although they might have more or less powerful technologies. According to the findings, 92 percent of the respondents said they are safe on the web, but a test with Verizon's Security Advisory revealed...

5 December 2007
10:37 GMT

IPCop 1.4.18 Released: Stop to Bad Packets!

IPCop 1.4.18 was released today. This edition has been split in two parts, in order to accommodate free space limitation related to the great number of new package additions, since the recent releases.You can select one of the two "kernel types" installed (monoprocessor or smp kernel) so that you can satisfy your di...

3 December 2007
05:27 GMT


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