Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him ...

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Router firewalls and software firewalls serve different roles in protecting your home Wi-Fi from unwanted traffic and ...

I have one question regarding routers. Mine's a Linksys EtherFast Cable/DSL Router BEFSR41, and it offers ZoneAlarm as a built-in firewall option, but needs some moola to download and get that going. ...

Get more control over all devices in your home with alternative router software; stop smart home gadgets from 'phoning home;' and access your devices from outside with VPN. Fancy doing something more ...

In this Recipe, I'll explain both the options for firewall protection and the differences between hardware and software implementations. By the end, you should be able to point a client to the ...

The Internet is a big, bad scary place, and so we must protect our small business networks with good stout firewalls. Firewalls can range from a simple gadget that keeps bad data packets out of our ...

It my recent story on "Patching the Internet" a discussion on how Dan Kaminsky broke, then subsequently helped fix DNS and the Internet, a lot of discussion centered around how the patch was breaking ...

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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 ...

Does the Windows firewall protect your computer sufficiently? What contribution does your router make -- and who needs additional security software? This article explains. The firewall is one of the ...