Anyone who reads my column on a regular basis knows that I loathe to focus too much on new technology or products as an answer to security concerns. Even I recognize, however, the existence of a small ...

The Internet is a scary place. Criminals on the Internet have the ability to hide behind their computers, or even other peoples computers, while they attempt to break into your computer to steal ...

ZDNET's key takeaways Your desktop firewall may not offer enough protection.There are various options available to increase your security.Two of these options are free, while the other has an ...

We are in the process of designing a strategy for turning on the Windows Desktop Firewall on our admin workstations. At this point we're blocking everything but ICMP, RDP and Dameware, however some of ...

COMMENTARY--Anyone who reads my column on a regular basis knows that I loathe to focus too much on new technology or products as an answer to security concerns. Even I recognize, however, the ...

You don't need a bloated security suite to get the best protection from a firewall Most large companies instituted solid network firewall protection long ago, and few have much need to run software at ...

At its most basic level, a firewall is anything that preventsunauthorized access to a computer. The firewall can be hardware orsoftware, and the protected computer can be a typical PC, ...

In Part 1 of this tutorial series, we configured Windows to accept remote desktop connections, so we can log into and use a PC anywhere in the World with Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection client ...