Category Archives: Firewall

Pertaining to firewalls.

Firewall Blocking Essentials?

Posted on 2021-09-15 by mike

Due to a certain episode around Easter this year, a number of changes were made to the firewall security policy to make it more secure. Since then a great deal of work has gone into identifying web-based applications that are … Continue reading →

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Careful With That Link Eugene

Posted on 2019-09-24 by mike

Over the last few weeks, I have noticed an increasing number of very suspicious looking links blocked by our “DNS firewall” – links like “xwhdg.read-this-hot-stuff.today”. The suspicion is that people are being sent emails with links within and they are … Continue reading →

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DNS Firewalls: What They Are, and What They’re Not

Posted on 2019-06-27 by mike

This posting is really a description of so-called “DNS Firewalls” intended for those who have to deal with security vendors regularly. Having said that, there are DNS firewalls for home users (I cannot make any specific recommendations), so it may … Continue reading →

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Using The VPN For General Internet Protection

Posted on 2018-11-15 by mike

Using the VPN is generally seen as a way of using UoP services remotely in a relatively safe way, but it does actually offer another advantage for using generic Internet services – because the VPN goes through the UoP firewall, … Continue reading →

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Firewall Vulnerability Alerts

Posted on 2016-03-01 by mike

We are just about to enable something that will email people when there is a critical firewall alert relating to an attempted exploit. During normal web browsing activity (although not when the web site is encrypted with https), the firewall keeps … Continue reading →

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