Check Point made an acquisition announcement today. There is not much information, but I have been able to find the following: The company was formed in 2017 The company was Israeli-based The acquisition was for less than $10 million I
Forcenock?
Humble Bundle – Cyber Security
Another amazing Packt bundle from Humble: Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook Network Analysis Using Wireshark 2 Cookbook Practical Cyber Intelligence Cybersecurity Attacks (Red Team Activity)[Video] Python For Offensive PenTest: A Complete Practical Course [Video] Cryptography with Python
Amazing HumbleBundle No Starch Deal
Every once in a while Humble Bundle has some amazing bundles for tech books. There is a great deal right now for No Starch Press titles: The Book of Inkscape: The Definitive Guide to the Free Graphics Editor The Book of GIMP:
CCSE R80.10: That Feeling When….
You realize you just lost hours of lab work on an error that is not documented in any SK articles… …and that a Jumbo will not fix either… …because
Russians
Sums up the past few days.
R80 is Here
Not an April 1st joke. Here is the portal page for R80: R80 General Availability Release Three main features they are taking about: Unified Policy Efficient, automated operation Integrated threat Management So who
WordPress PHP Issues…
My hosting company screwed up a backend configuration. The result is that the ‘search’ function and ‘pages’ listing has disappeared. I will be moving to a new theme in the next few days. In the meantime you may have to
Check Point SKO 2016 QOTD
“A security company that focuses on marketing is really just a marketing company” – Greg Young, Gartner Group Amen.
All I Want for X-mas is an R80 SmartEvent EA Client that Works
Awesome. Does this on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. Separate downloads, verified checksum. I suppose it is EA, but still, no fun.
Showing DHCP Leases on Check Point Gateways
I wouldn’t normally recommend using a gateway as a DHCP server (most environments don’t need to), but it can be useful in a smaller environment or lab scenario. Getting R77.20 GAiA setup to provide addresses is a whole other topic.