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Media Alert: Check Point Already Protects Against Latest DNS Attacks

                   
finanznachrichten.de
08-Jul-2008
        
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Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq:CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced Check Point VPN-1® and Connectra shield servers from the latest Domain Name Server (DNS) cache poisoning threat, CVE-2008-1447, disclosed today. Check Point customers gain immediate protection against the threat by enabling DNS scrambling. DNS cache poisoning is the first step in an attack sequence that spoofs a legitimate website to infect a user's computer with malicious code or steal a user's private credentials. Through the attack, hackers trick a domain name server (large servers that convert domain names into numeric IP addresses) into associating a correct domain name with the IP address of a malicious site; so, instead of visiting the intended website, users are sent to a malicious site. The latest DNS... [read full story]                    

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Check Point VPN-1, Connectra Protect Users Against DNS Attacks

 tmcnet.com 09-Jul-2008
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Media Alert: Check Point Already Protects Against Latest DNS Attacks

earthtimes.org
08-Jul-2008
        

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq:CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced Check Point VPN-1® and Connectra shield servers from the latest Domain Name Server...