October 30th, 2009 by nedmarx
SonicWALL Internet security , a leading secure network infrastructure company, has announced Northwoods Community Church (Northwoods) a member of the Fellowship of Evangelical Churches serving a congregation of 3,900 churchgoers in Peoria, Illinois, has deployed a SonicWALL Clean VPN by combining a SonicWALL SSL-VPN 2000 secure remote access appliance with a SonicWALL® E-Class NSA E5500 network security appliance.
Northwood’s IT Director Jason Lee explained the need for secure network as the church has several staff who frequenty travel and need constant access to data from their servers. “Knowing that our network is safe and secure and invulnerable from outside attacks, will enable us to sleep soundly at night. Having a secure and attack-free remote access is crucial to our operations.”
Northwoods’ E5500 firewall scans both inbound and outbound SSL VPN traffic using Gateway Antivirus, Anti-Spyware and Intrusion Prevention services.
As a nonprofit organization, Northwoods is especially sensitive…
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October 30th, 2009 by nedmarx
SoniWall~{The firm}~SonicWall~Sonic}~SoniWall~{The firm}~SonicWall~Sonic}.a leader in network infrastructure security, has launched a new software that provides security against threat of these so-called SSL Certificate Null Byte Poisoning vulnerabiltiy. Users of the SonicWall Internet security‘s Unified Threat Management Firewall technology, which protects against viruses, Trojans, worms and other threats and vulnerabilities, automatically receive updated signatures designed to repel security threats.
Various browser and non-browser based SSL implementations will be vulnerable for hijacking as your computer is incapable of defending itself from attacks. An attacker will obtain null byte stuffed certificate to resemble the origin of the content, making your computer vulnerable to attacks because your system cannot distinguish if the machine is under attack from third party source.
Your computer is also vulnerable to attacks from other viruses, including trohans and malwares as the attacker can exploit your computer’s weakness aside from compromised SSL session.
The BlackHat security first publicized the problem during…
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