If users only needed stable and reliable products they would stay with MSDOS.
Arp spoofing cannot be overcome by any singe firewall by definition. In case a spoofer spoofs a gateway with your fake MAc address your firewall...
I agree with your main line. Matousec tests are useful and technically interesting. Though, his latest move is beyond my understanding and while...
This is completely different question. If you are uncomfortable with the name (firewall) let you call it security suit. As for me I prefer to have...
Peter uses paid version which stops all the keyloggers. Free version is officially declared not to have advanced antikeylogging. But these are...
There is nothing to worry about. I took a look at the results, the main part of the fails are keyloggers. It was declared that free version...
Shame on me ! I have no justification :)
There is a lot of the old stable firewalls out there. Just take one of them. No and never. I'm ready to sacrifice some stability to the...
Yes, life is life. Everything moves and changes all the time. New code -- new bugs, etc etc :) I would just added, that they not only try to...
I'm not ready to restrict myself from running everything unknown just not to get compromised ! I rely on my HIPS and my experience and feel myself...
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I think they have no choice. I can hardly imagine security vendor advocating security hole (which leaktest POCs demonstrate). Vendor should admit...
Just instruct him to press "block" in case he doesn't inderstand the word :)
One of the main tasks of the HIPS part is to prevent the kernel compromise. BTW, you miss some important point in the tests. The main part of many...
So, do you think there is no need in additonal security layers or do you want to say that IPS part must be separated from firewall ? In the latter...
A lot of reasons. Childrens, from email received by your Mom, from a flash drive with students' tasks you need to check. This is what did come to...
My firewall will not allow it to access the kernel. It will do it to be able to fulfil its main task -- to control network traffic. Cicle is...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall === Firewall technology emerged in the late 1980s when the Internet was a fairly new technology in terms...
it is safe if: 1) you are guaranteed that you or your childrens never launch new programs downloaded from internet or CD disks or flash 2) you...
It is interesting, if you run Apt not sanboxed, will SBIE prevent sanboxed browser from termination by Apt ?
There are. Modern firewall has to treat modern network-related malware in a safe way. This is the main modern requirement. Also modern firewall...
I think it is hardly anybody would argue this statement. Does it mean anybody who tries should be bashed ? :) My point is a clever person can...
Fair ? LOL Any company, any customer and any private person may think whatever he wishes and test whatever he wants with whatever criterias he...
Security and convinience are two contradicting things, unfortunately :)
Why should I disable my protection to run the tests ? As for entire concept, it depends on what you personally do call Firewall. In case Firewall...
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