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Watchguard system Manager is unable to connect to Watchguard firebox x750

Question:
Hello,
I am trying to connect to the Firebox in our office through WSM but I am unable to connect as of yesterday. I was trying to add it to the devices list in device management but was not having any luck.
Thanks!
Solution:
Hi LJ,
Ok here is the solution but I’ll give you credit for everything that should [...]

Help understanding encryption!

Question:
Hi
No matter what articles I read, I still can’t get the hang of encryption where public and private keys are used. So I understand that it’s possible to encrypt data with an algorithm – that makes sense to me. And I also understand that you need a key to unencrypt this…
But what I don’t understand [...]

Snort Preferences

Question:
I have setup a Snort box to monitor our network.  I am currently using oinkmaster to download the latest rule sets from snort .org.  I was looking at an article on Snort and the author was using rules from Bleeding Snort.   I was just wondering which ruleset would be the best on to use and [...]

Is hard drive needed on IDS 4215 ?

Question:
Hi all, I previously opened a topic about my pain with my IDS, but this is an off topic question, so I post here, but I’ll let the mods moving if needed. Well, I was wondering if a hard drive is required to run the IDS 4215 ? I got everything booting up, but then [...]

A question about Iptable firewall, linux

Question:
My /etc/sysconfig/iptables like this (default of Centos RHEL)
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:RH-Firewall-1-INPUT – [0:0]
-A INPUT -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
-A FORWARD -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p icmp –icmp-type any -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 50 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 51 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp –dport 5353 -d 224.0.0.251 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p [...]

PIX 515e extend hosts by changing mask

Question:
For my agencies PUBLIC wireless network, we have a PIX 515e. The outside interface has a single public address and all internal hosts are Port Address Translated to that interface.
The inside interface has a private address of 10.10.1.254 /24, obviously giving us only 255 hosts minus the usual broadcast and subnet etc.
The DHCP server set [...]

Bank online security software – are a lot of banks offering software to protect customers?

Question:
Just saw this.
http://www.ulsterbank.ie/ri_01a.asp?id=CORPORATE/ONLINE_SERVICES/RAPPORT
Are a lot of banks offering similar?
Solution:
Actually, this tool looks like an intrusion prevention system for a whitelist of websites.  Comes with pre-builts and/or you can add your own to the whitelist.  It offers a fair amount of prevention against all sorts of current trends in malware now.
***look at end for final thoughts [...]

Open computer in safe mode

Question:
I have an old Toshiba computer that I want to start up in “Safe Mode” any idea how to do that? I hit F2 and F12 on startup but can’t figure it out from that weird Pheonix Trusted Core(tm) Setup Utility.
I am running Windows XP with it.
Solution:
Hi There,
You can try F8 or F5. This should [...]

encryption of files

Question:
what command prompt tools can we use encrypt and decrypt the file contents.
Solution:
I would recommend this program. Very easy to use. Just right click the file you want to encrypt and enter the password. Be sure not to forget the password though, otherwise you will not be able to access it.
http://www.axantum.com/axcrypt/

How to delete

Question:
I’m trying to cleanup/delete some of the old PGP keys which last time imported from other parties.
How can I delete the old keys? I tried to right click on the keys but the delete function is disabled (grey off).
Solution:
Ypu would probably have to ake ownership of the file by right clicking the files and selecting [...]