Tuesday July 8, 2:30 pm ET SmartDefense integrated intrusion prevention in VPN-1 and Connectra secure enterprise networks from newest attack REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq:CHKP - News ), 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...
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