Simone Margaritelli, the VP of Research at Zimperium, has created a Linux port of Little Snitch, a wildly popular macOS firewall application. Named OpenSnitch, the Linux port works on the same ...

You can select a default zone from the list and even set the default zone. Out of the box, the default zone is FedoraWorkstation, which rejects unsolicited incoming packets from ports 1 to 1024 ...

Linux is highly secure, but you should still have a firewall. You should know if your ISP's hardware (gateway) uses a firewall. One of the easiest Linux firewalls is UFW and its GUI sidekick, GUFW.

WHEN LOOKING for an effective, inexpensive firewall solution, Linux firewalls do not often enter into the picture unless someone involved in the security planning process is a Linux guru. With the ...

Also, apparently many Linux distros install a lot of extra "fluff" porgrams, some of which can add vulnerabilities to a firewall as well. Most router distros are stripped down and only use time-tested ...

Stories of compromised servers and data theft fill today's news. It isn't difficult for someone who has read an informative blog post to access a system via a misconfigured service, take advantage of ...

Through the years, I've used all sorts of router and firewall solutions at home and at work. For home networks, I usually recommend something like DD-WRT, OpenWRT or Tomato on an off-the-shelf router.