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Zyxel Launches USG2200-VPN Flagship VPN Firewall
Zyxel announced the launch of their new flagship VPN Firewall, the USG2200-VPN. The new unit is a high-performance all-in-one security appliance for multi-site medium-sized businesses. It leverages great connectivity options along with a strong security. “As businesses and the people that work for them become increasingly mobile, companies are faced…
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Create Your Own Router and Firewall Solution
Over-the-counter routers are fine and work as they should, but they simply aren’t enough for some of us. Quite a few of the standard routers located around the homes of the world allow for an open source WRT-based firmware to be installed, but that might still not be enough. If that’s the…
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China Make Online News Regulations Tighter
The Chinese Government has announced new regulations which will place further sanctions and restrictions on its online news content. Any organisation wishing to publish news in China must have a license and senior editors must be approved by the Chinese government. This legislation will bring online news companies into line…
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Linksys LRT214 Business Gigabit VPN Router Review
Introduction A router is just a small box with a couple of antennas allowing you to surf and game online for home users, but if you’re a business, then it’s a completely different story. For a business, the router is the gateway to and from the world and it has…
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“Great Firewall of Britain” Proposed
A proposal by the UK internet watchdog National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to filter internet content at the DNS level has been dubbed the “Great Firewall of Great Britain” due to the idea’s similarity to China’s infamous draconian national firewall, colloquially known as the Great Firewall of China. The head…
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$10 Router Blamed for $80m Bangladesh Bank Hack
Last month, we brought you the story of a group of hackers that managed to steal around $80 million from Bangladesh Bank – a figure which could have been closer to $1 billion had it not been for an unfortunate spelling mistake – and the subsequent investigation has now revealed…
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FBI Says Hackers Have Had Access to Government Systems Since 2011
While trying to gain access to iPhones and emails, the FBI are having to deal with a wholly different threat. Their own systems have been compromised and a group of hackers has had access to governments systems since 2011. The report that has been raised shows that a group that…
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Juniper Releases Second Patch To Fix Flaws
Juniper has been in the news a lot recently, after discovering that their firewalls exposed virtual private networks ‘secure’ data. It was then revealed that this went one step further, with groups like the NSA and GCHQ working together to hack Junipers firewalls. If this wasn’t bad enough, Juniper fell silent…
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Juniper Still Hasn’t Removed Backdoor Vulnerability from Its Software
Last month, Juniper Networks – a company that supplies security software to the likes of AT&T, Verizon, NATO, and the US Government – reported that it had found what it described as “unauthorised code” – effectively a backdoor – in its NetScreen firewall software, through which it was possible for…
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WatchGuard Firebox T30 And T50 UTM Now Available
We’ve seen a lot of attacks in the recent months where both online technology resellers as well as universities and even the DNS Root Servers being attacked. In such a time you’ll want the best possible protection for your connected devices and Wick Hill just announced the shipping of their…
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Donald Trump Wants To ‘Close Up’ The Internet
Donald Trump is known for a wide range of things, from his running as a presidential candidate, his viewpoints on certain issues and even in the UK for blocking proposals of new electric wind farms. The latest idea from Trump though is even more worrying; he wants to close off…
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Dells Security Affects More Than Just Your PC!
Recently Dell has received a lot of attention regarding their security, to be more precise it was due to a digital certificate. These are small pieces of code that are used to encrypt the traffic between your system and any website or online system you use, remember that little padlock in…
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Thailand Wants To Set Up Its Own Great Firewall
Hadrians Wall, The Great Wall of China. These things have one thing in common, they were built to stop people accessing a certain area. In this day and age we can travel easily enough, but our data has even greater freedom to travel, with the ability to navigate from one side…
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Internet Watershed For Saucy eBooks
Have you ever contemplated if governments, authorities, and anyone who debates, writes and passes laws around the world genuinely understands the notion of the Internet? Over the years Pepperidge Farms has wondered this and so have I. A variety of experts have defended politicians stating that after analysing the results,…
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Gmail Has Been Blocked in China
Google’s popular email service, Gmail, has finally been blocked in China. GreatFire.org says that China’s ‘Great Firewall’ had finally kept citizens from accessing the service altogether, after months of incomplete attempts at blocking it. It’s said that the service was blocked on Friday, with users completely unable to get in. The news…
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