Archive for the 'Internet Security' Category

Functional Evaluation of SafeMedia’s Network Security Appliance “HALO-NS”

HughesTech Labs:   In the past 2 weeks, HughesTech Lab’s review team has had the opportunity to test SafeMedia’s new network security system HALONS through many in-depth test suites of network security, intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, network penetration and, unintentional information disclosure. Before we started the test; we contacted two of SafeMedia’s current users. The [...]

Is Your PC Really Secure? Think Again!

HughesTech Labs has been reviewing the shrink-wrap Windows® XP SP2 Firewall for some time now.  What we found was very strange and unusual. It turns out that some internet applications seem to get added to the Exception rule, without the permission from the Owner  or the Administrator of the PC! The current Firewall gives the user no indication [...]