Firewalls

Whoops! Check Point lets checkpoint.com expire

Image via CrunchBase Whoops! Check Point lets checkpoint.com expire: By Tim Greene | Network World US | 03 April 12 It’s got to be a little embarrassing for a security company steeped in paying attention to details like opening and closing firewall ports and monitoring whether applications are behaving oddly to overlook … Related articles Check Point Takes Security Products To Amazon Check Point in domain expiry snafu Check Point supports cloud security for Amazon Web Services Sentrigo Achieves OPSEC Certification From Check Point Check Point supports cloud security for Amazon Web Services How To Evaluate Next-Generation Firewalls Email cock-up…

TCP Split Handshake Issue

Image via WikipediaTCP Split Handshake Issue those days I’ve read on the news a lot of noise about an NSS test that were reporting a TCP handshake security hole (TCP Split Handshake Issue) in several commercial firewalls. The question is interesting from several points of view: are IPS and firewall really secure? is a vulnerability really a security issue? how does this vulnerability affect me? http://portadiferro.blogspot.com/2011/04/tcp-split-handshake-issue.html Related articles Other Considerations On TCP Split Handshake (paulsparrows.wordpress.com) TCP Split Handshake: Why Cisco ASA is not susceptible (paulsparrows.wordpress.com) TCP Split Handshake: The (Never)ending Story… (paulsparrows.wordpress.com) TCP Split Handshake Attack Explained (paulsparrows.wordpress.com) Hacker ‘handshake’…

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