Media Alert: Check Point Provides Protection Against Microsoft Windows Safari Browser Vulnerability

  
    
  
  
    
      Check Point® Software 
      Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq:CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the 
      Internet, today announced that users of its VPN-1, IPS-1, Connectra, and 
      InterSpect products are protected against a potentially dangerous remote 
      code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Windows.
    
    
      Check Point customers who subscribe to Check Point SmartDefense Services – 
      which provide ongoing and real-time updates and configuration advisories 
      for defenses and security policies – received 
      protection for the broader DLL-load Hijacking vulnerability on June 2nd. 
      These customers are protected not only from the Safari instance of 
      DLL-load Hijacking, but from other exploits that may try to utilize a 
      similar vulnerability approach.
    
    
      “Windows platform vulnerabilities, which often 
      go unpatched for days, weeks or even months, continue to be one of the 
      top security challenges facing enterprise network environments today,” 
      said Oded Gonda, vice president of network security products at Check 
      Point. “Check Point customers, however, 
      through our SmartDefense Services, do not have to rely on patches to be 
      issued by vendors or deployed to all machines to have the protection 
      against these vulnerabilities.”
    
    
      Check Point’s SmartDefense Services maintain 
      the most current preemptive security for the Check Point security 
      infrastructure. To help defenses stay continuously ahead of today's 
      constantly evolving threat landscape, SmartDefense Services provide 
      ongoing and real-time updates and configuration advisories for defenses 
      and security policies.
    
    
      Announced in Microsoft Security Advisory 953818 on May 30, this 
      vulnerability affects users of Windows XP and Windows Vista when Apple’s 
      Safari for Windows has been installed. The vulnerability is due to the 
      combination of the default download location of dynamic link libraries 
      (DLLs) and how the Windows desktop handles these executables. The result 
      is a blended threat in which files may be downloaded to a machine 
      without prompting, allowing them to be executed. Apple issued a patch on 
      June 19th for the Safari-specific vulnerability.
    
    
      More information about this vulnerability can be found at Check Point 
      Software’s SmartDefense Services website at: www.checkpoint.com/defense/advisories/public/2008/cpai-02-Jun.html
    
    
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      Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) 
      is the leader in securing the Internet. Check Point offers total 
      security solutions featuring a unified gateway, single endpoint agent 
      and single management architecture, customized to fit customers’ 
      dynamic business needs. This combination is unique and is a result of 
      our leadership and innovation in the enterprise firewall, personal 
      firewall/endpoint, data security and VPN markets.
    
    
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      security. Through its NGX platform, Check Point delivers a unified 
      security architecture to protect business communications and resources, 
      including corporate networks and applications, remote employees, branch 
      offices and partner extranets. The company also offers market-leading 
      endpoint and data security solutions with Check Point Endpoint Security 
      products, protecting and encrypting sensitive corporate information 
      stored on PCs and other mobile computing devices. Check Point's 
      award-winning ZoneAlarm solutions protect millions of consumer PCs from 
      hackers, spyware and identity theft. Check Point solutions are sold, 
      integrated and serviced by a network of Check Point partners around the 
      world and its customers include 100 percent of Fortune 100 companies and 
      tens of thousands of businesses and organizations of all sizes.
    
    
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