BroadWeb Successfully Protects Customers against Next Generation of SoftEther-like Application Announcement
Burlingame, Calif., July 18, 2006 – BroadWeb Corp. announced today that its NetKeeper Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) provide protection against the TUNNEL usage such as TinyVPN login attempt, Hamachi login attempt, and PacketiX VPN connection attempt.
Programs such as the Tiny VPN, Hamachi, and PacketiX VPN nowadays pose a potential threat to the network security when they are deployed on a secured network segment. These programs utilize the tunneling technologies, where the data transfers in and out of the network are encrypted. This network behavior could place possible security issues where malicious users can cause information theft since the transferring processes cannot be monitored due to encryptions. Especially the Hamachi program, it is a combination of the tunneling and P2P technologies; Hamachi bypass the access control of VLAN or different subnet to allow user setup a peer-to-peer communications in the private network. Program like these may pose a great danger to a secured, corporate networking environment.
“BroadWeb believes all technologies have its place in its invention”, said Stephen Tseng, director of Broadweb International sales department, “but information theft is rapidly becoming an important issue to the corporation today that it is prudent for the corporation to have the ability to regulate programs like TinyVPN, Hamachi, and PacketiX VPN.”
Broadweb BSST (BroadWeb Security Service Team) suggests that BroadWeb IPS users upgrade their signature patterns to version 3.46 and version 3.47 or later in order to guard against the Tunnel/Next Generation of SoftEther usage. Please visit our BSST website (http://www.broadweb.com/english/03_support/bsst3.html) for more information.
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