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Dell Unveils New Firewall for Mid-sized Businesses

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Technology company Dell introduced its latest enterprise-class firewall solution, SuperMassive 9800, Tuesday.

The solution adds a layer of security for Internet of Things devices, new auditable workflow automation capabilities on top of threat management for the cloud, mobiles and networks.

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SuperMassive 9800 is a next-generation firewall solution that integrates Global Management System 8.0 technology, Dell said. It will be released to the public in early 2015.

Dell is pushing the next-generation management and security platform as an affordable alternative for medium-sized businesses and organizations but which still has the power of the SuperMassive NGFW solutions for big companies.

"The recent disclosures of the ShellShock and HeartBleed industry-wide vulnerabilities demonstrate that organizations are literally a few well-formed packets away from infrastructure disaster, proving the need for instant and automated security scaled to meet the needs of the network," Patrick Sweeney, executive director of Dell Security, said in a statement.

Meanwhile, another vulnerability was found in Windows. Security company iSight announced in a blog post Tuesday that Russian hackers have exploited the CVE-2014-4114 vulnerability in the Windows operating system.

This vulnerability allows cyber criminals to target computers used by the European Union, NATO, Ukraine and the energy and telecommunication sectors.

The firm said the zero-day vulnerability impacts all supported versions of Windows Server 2008 and 2012 and Windows. Microsoft said it's preparing to patch the vulnerability, dubbed "Sandworm."

The automatic fix will be a part of the software company's weekly release of updates, nicknamed "Patch Tuesday."

iSight said the exploit was utilized as part of a cyberespionage campaign that lasted five years. The cyber criminals, tagged the "Sandworm team," has been observed by the security firm starting the latter part of 2013 to the present. Reports point out that the hacking campaign has been in progress since 2009.

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