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Short Take: Secure gives away firewall add-on

Internet security vendor Secure Computing has released a free add-on for its BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0 that helps ward off the "SYN flooding" attacks that have paralyzed several ISPs recently. The add-on, available from any Secure Computing VAR, uses an operating system modified for security to keep the denial of service attack from affecting the firewall server.

CNET News staff
Internet security vendor has released a free add-on for its BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0 that helps ward off the "SYN flooding" attacks that have paralyzed several ISPs recently. The add-on, available from any Secure Computing VAR, uses an operating system modified for security to keep the denial of service attack from affecting the firewall server.