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Secure Computing Warns of New Security Threat: First Virus to Attack Both Email and Web Protocols

Secure Computing's TrustedSource researchers have noted that a growing number of worms are using a technique called server-side polymorphism to evade traditional signature-based anti-virus detection. Changes or updates to the malware are made transparently--manually or automatically. New versions can be repackaged and tested against the leading AV software to ensure newer versions will go undetected.
The Storm worm successfully utilizes this technique, releasing a new binary every 15 minutes to 1 hour. Our testing has confirmed that new versions of this threat have, in fact, failed detection by AV software engines as expected.

Check Point adds new NAC capabilities

Check Point Software is announcing a supplemental NAC architecture this week that integrates its deep-inspection firewalls with Intel-based network interface cards to block rogue behavior.

See full article on NW http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/030507-checkpoint-nac.html

Check Point Launches UTM-1 Firewall Appliance

The uncompromising level of security that has made Check Point a security leader is now available in an easy to deploy and manage unified threat management (UTM) appliance.

This is big news for the Check Point company and big news for the security field. This should shake up a few of the major firewall hardware players like Cisco and Juniper. Hopefully Check Point can make it stick.

Read more here:
http://www.checkpoint.com/products/home_promo/utm-1_022007.html

Review:
http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2007/020507-checkpoint-test.html