Top IPS Protections Archive
An in-depth explanation of important recent threats and the related protections.
2012
Two Critical Vulnerabilities Discovered in Windows Kernel Drivers
Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Disclosed
Critical Vulnerability in Microsoft DirectPlay Can Allow Remote Code Execution
Vulnerabilities in Microsoft .NET Framework Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Three Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities Discovered in Microsoft Internet Explorer 9
Four Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities Discovered in Microsoft Excel
XSS Vulnerability Discovered in Microsoft SQL Server
Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word Can Allow Remote Code Execution
Critical Vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Applications Can Allow Remote Code Execution
Check Point Protects Against Critical Zero-Day Internet Explorer Vulnerability
Two Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities Discovered in Apple QuickTime
Check Point Protects Against Critical Java Vulnerabilities
Three Critical Vulnerabilities Discovered in Microsoft Internet Explorer
Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Common Controls Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Check Point Protects Against Two Critical Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Microsoft Data Access Components Vulnerability Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Critical Vulnerability Discovered in Microsoft .NET Application Framework
Check Point Protects Your Network Against Eleven Microsoft Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities
Check Point Provides Immediate Protection Against "Flame" Worm
Check Point Protects Networks Against Microsoft TrueType Font Parsing Vulnerability
Two Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities Discovered in Windows GDI+ Subsystem
Six Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities Discovered in Microsoft Office
Critical Vulnerability in Microsoft ActiveX Component Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Check Point Protects Against Three Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Two Critical Vulnerabilities Found in Adobe Flash Player
Denial of Service Vulnerability Discovered in Microsoft Windows DNS Server
Check Point Protects Against Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Windows Remote Desktop Protocol
Check Point Protects Against msvcrt.dll Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Three Vulnerabilities Discovered in Microsoft Internet Explorer
Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities Found in Microsoft .NET and Silverlight
Check Point Provides Network Protection against Microsoft Windows Packager Vulnerability
Two Windows Media Playback Vulnerabilities Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Insecure Executable Launching Vulnerability Found in Microsoft Windows Object Packager
2011
Check Point Protects Networks Against Zero-Day Hash Collision DoS Vulnerability
Check Point Protects Networks from Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Discovered in Windows Media Player
Check Point Provides Network Protection Against Critical Vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat
Check Point Provides Network Protection Against Adobe Photoshop Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Check Point Protects Networks Against Vulnerability Being Exploited by the Duqu Malware
Critical Vulnerability Discovered in Microsoft .NET Framework and Silverlight
Five Vulnerabilities Found in Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway
Multiple Vulnerabilities Discovered in Microsoft Internet Explorer
Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows Components Can Allow Remote Code Execution
Multiple Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in MS Excel Disclosed
Check Point Protects Networks From Multiple Vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint
Dutch SSL Certificate Authority DigiNotar Suffers Serious Breach
Check Point Provides Network Protection Against Multiple Adobe Flash Player Vulnerabilities
Critical Vulnerability Discovered in Microsoft Data Access Components
Check Point Provides Preemptive Protection Against Critical Internet Explorer Vulnerability
Check Point IPS Provides Protection Against Four Microsoft Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities
Critical Vulnerability in Apple IOS PDF Document Reader
Critical Remote Code Execution Issue in Microsoft Office Visio 2003
Five Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities Discovered in Microsoft's CSRSS
Check Point Provides Network Protection Against TDLv4 Rootkit Malware
Check Point IPS Protects Against Seven Microsoft Excel Vulnerabilities
Check Point IPS Protects Against Nine Vulnerabilities Discovered in Microsoft Internet Explorer
Critical Adobe Flash Player Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Adobe Announces Several Flash Player Vulnerabilities
Vulnerability Discovered in Microsoft PowerPoint
Critical Microsoft WINS Service Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Critical Adobe Flash Player Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Critical Integer Overflow Vulnerability in Microsoft's GDI+ Image Processing API
Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability in Microsoft Word
Check Point Provides Preemptive Protection Against "LizaMoon" SQL Injection Attacks
Check Point Protects Against Fraudulent Comodo Digital Certificates
Critical Zero-Day Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player, Acrobat, and Reader
Microsoft Groove 2007 Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability
Two Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities Reported in Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center
Check Point IPS Provides Immediate Network Protection for Multiple Critical Adobe Vulnerabilities
Zero-Day Microsoft Windows SMB Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Security Best Practice: Blocking iPhone Web Browsing on the Enterprise Wireless Network
Microsoft Patches Three Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Zero-Day Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Microsoft MHTML Protocol Handler
Two Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities Included in January Microsoft Patch Tuesday Content
Ringing in the New Year with Several Microsoft Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Exim Mail Transfer Agent
2010
Zero Day Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Internet Explorer
Check Point IPS Protects Against IPS/IDS Evasion Techniques
Microsoft Office Graphics Filters Could Allow Remote Code Execution (MS10-105)
MS Task Scheduler Vulnerability Used by Stuxnet Worm To Obtain Administrator System Privileges
DLL Search Path Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows Applications
Critical Adobe Flash Media Server Denial of Service Vulnerability (APSB10-27)
Adobe Flash Player Malicious DLL Execution Vulnerability
Adobe Reader JavaScript printSeps Vulnerability
Remote Code Exploit Leverages Legacy PowerPoint Files
Zero-Day Internet Explorer Table Handling Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Critical Vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player (APSA10-05)
Check Point IPS Research Team Discovers Four Adobe Shockwave Player Vulnerabilities
Critical Adobe Shockwave Player Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Microsoft Print Spooler Vulnerability Used by Stuxnet Worm to Propagate Across Networks
Check Point IPS Research Team Discovers Microsoft Internet Explorer MSHTML Vulnerability
Check Point Protects Systems Against Stuxnet Worm
Critical Microsoft Windows Media Player RTSP Vulnerability
Microsoft Secure Channel Denial of Service Vulnerability
Check Point IPS Research Team Discovers Synology DiskStation Manager Vulnerability
Microsoft ASP.NET Vulnerability
Microsoft Outlook Web Access Vulnerability
Microsoft Internet Information Services MS10-065 Vulnerabilities
Adobe APSA10-02 Zero-Day Vulnerability in Reader and Acrobat
Vulnerability in Apple's CoreGraphics Discovered by Check Point IPS Research Team
IPS Research Team Discovers Six Vulnerabilities in Adobe Shockwave Player
Check Point Provides Preemptive Protection for Microsoft SSL/TLS Renegotiation Vulnerability
IPS Research Team Helps Protect Customers from Microsoft Office Word MS10-056 Vulnerabilities
Microsoft MPEG Layer-3 Codecs Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Microsoft Shortcut (LNK) Vulnerability
IPS Research Team Discovers Critical ToolTalk Database Server Parser Vulnerability
Microsoft Patches Two 0-day Vulnerabilities
Microsoft Outlook AttachMethods Vulnerability
IPS Update for Critical Adobe Vulnerabilities in APSB10-15
Microsoft Help and Support Center 0-day Vulnerability
Adobe Flash Player 0-day Vulnerability
IPS Research Team Discovers Critical Syslog Format String Vulnerability
SMB Remote Disk Scanning for Executable Files Protection
Microsoft Outlook Express and Windows Mail Vulnerability
Critical Linux Kernel Vulnerability
Microsoft SharePoint XSS Vulnerability
Critical Vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat Products
Multiple Browser Vulnerabilities
Microsoft SMB Client Vulnerabilities
Blocking Null Prefix in DNS MX Records
Internet Explorer iepeers.dll Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Microsoft Office Excel Vulnerabilities
Botnets: Kneber and Pushdo Protections
Internet Explorer VBScript Vulnerability
Novell eDirectory Integer Overflow Vulnerability
Microsoft Windows SMB Server Vulnerabilities
Critical Microsoft Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities
Critical Vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat Products
2009
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Filename Extension Parsing Vulnerability
Adobe Reader and Acrobat Doc.media.newPlayer Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Novell eDirectory Vulnerability
Microsoft Internet Explorer HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Microsoft Windows 7 SMB DoS Vulnerability
Microsoft Windows Internal Server Vulnerabilities
Oracle Database Server Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Microsoft Windows LSASS Authentication
Microsoft Windows Media File Vulnerabilities
Microsoft SMBv2 Vulnerabilities
Immediate Protection for Unpatched Microsoft Windows SMB Negotiate Request Remote Code Execution
Windows TCP/IP Denial of Service Attacks (Sockstress)
Browser SSL Certificates Vulnerability
Internet Information Services FTP Service Vulnerability
Microsoft Windows Workstation Service Vulnerability
Microsoft Windows AVI Vulnerabilities
Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities
Microsoft Office Web Components ActiveX Vulnerability
Multiple Vendors NTP Daemon Vulnerability
WebDAV Internet Information Services Vulnerabilities
Critical Vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat Products
DirectShow QuickTime Vulnerability
WebDAV Vulnerability in Internet Information Services
MIT Kerberos Uninitialized Pointer Reference Vulnerability
Microsoft Office Multiple PowerPoint Vulnerabilities
Preemptive Protection Against Adobe Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Microsoft Office PowerPoint Parsing Code Execution Vulnerability (Zero-day)
Microsoft ISA Server TCP State Limited Denial of Service Vulnerability
Microsoft Windows HTTP Services Credential Reflection Vulnerability
Check Point Provides Preemptive Protection Against Latest Microsoft DNS Server Vulnerabilities
Microsoft DNS Server WPAD Registration Spoofing Vulnerability
Microsoft Office Excel Vulnerability
Adobe Vulnerability Attacks:
Proactive PDF Protection
Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerability
Preemptive Protection against Novell GroupWise Internet Agent Buffer Overflow
SmartDefense Deployment Tip: Improving performance for mail server protections
Downadup (Conficker) Worm:
When Patching Takes Too Long
Smart Defense Leads the Industry in Microsoft Protections
Microsoft SQL Server Stored Procedure Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
2008
Sun Solaris Command Injection Vulnerability
Microsoft Excel Vulnerabilities
New Microsoft Server Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (MS08-067)
Pre-emptive Malformed File Attack Protection
Microsoft Server Service Exploit
Oracle BEA WebLogic Server Apache Connector Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Microsoft Server Message Block Vulnerability