Whoops! Check Point lets checkpoint.com expire

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Whoops! Check Point lets checkpoint.com expire

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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

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