SonicWall fingers state-backed cyber crew for September firewall breach
Spies, not crooks, were behind digital heist – damage stopped at the backups, says US cybersec biz
Cyber-crime06 Nov 2025 | 10
Firewall
UK and US security agencies order urgent fixes as Cisco firewall bugs exploited in wild
CISA gives feds 24 hours to patch, NCSC urges rapid action as flaws linked to ArcaneDoor spies
Patches26 Sep 2025 | 14
Crims bust through SonicWall to grab sensitive config data
Vendor pulls plug on cloud backup feature, urges admins to reset passwords and re-secure devices
Cyber-crime18 Sep 2025 | 6
Microsoft Windows Firewall complains about Microsoft code
Just ignore the warnings. Nothing to see here. Move along
Security03 Jul 2025 | 22
Palo Alto firewalls under attack as miscreants chain flaws for root access
If you want to avoid urgent patches, stop exposing management consoles to the public internet
Security19 Feb 2025 | 8
Mysterious Palo Alto firewall reboots? You're not alone
Limited-edition hotfix to get wider release before end of month
Networks13 Feb 2025 | 6
Zyxel firewalls borked by buggy update, on-site access required for fix
Boxes stuck in boot loops and various other malfunctions
Networks27 Jan 2025 | 14
Fortinet: FortiGate config leaks are genuine but misleading
Competition hots up with Ivanti over who can have the worst start to a year
Cyber-crime17 Jan 2025 | 5
Miscreants 'mass exploited' Fortinet firewalls, 'highly probable' zero-day used
Updated Ransomware 'not off the table,' Arctic Wolf threat hunter tells El Reg
Networks14 Jan 2025 | 26
US names Chinese national it alleges was behind 2020 attack on Sophos firewalls
Also sanctions his employer – an outfit called Sichuan Silence linked to Ragnarok ransomware
Cyber-crime11 Dec 2024 | 4
Palo Alto Networks tackles firewall-busting zero-days with critical patches
Amazing that these two bugs got into a production appliance, say researchers
Patches19 Nov 2024 | 4
Pakistan’s internet slows to uncomfortable levels, allegedly due to new China-style firewall
Minister issues denial – it's just an upgrade to the 'web-management system'
Public Sector20 Aug 2024 | 6
China's FortiGate attacks more extensive than first thought
Dutch intelligence says at least 20,000 firewalls pwned in just a few months
Cyber-crime12 Jun 2024 | 13
Zero-day exploited right now in Palo Alto Networks' GlobalProtect gateways
Out of the PAN-OS and into the firewall, a Python backdoor this way comes
Cyber-crime12 Apr 2024 | 13
More than 178,000 SonicWall firewalls are exposed to old denial of service bugs
Updated Majority of public-facing devices still unpatched against critical vulns from as far back as 2022
Research16 Jan 2024 | 8
Thousands of Juniper Networks devices vulnerable to critical RCE bug
Yet more support for the argument to adopt memory-safe languages
Patches15 Jan 2024 | 13
Cisco intros AI to find firewall flaws, warns this sort of thing can't be free
Predicts cyber crims will find binary brainboxes harder to battle
Security06 Dec 2023 | 13
Inside Denmark’s hell week as critical infrastructure orgs faced cyberattacks
Zyxel zero days and nation-state actors (maybe) had a hand in the sector’s worst cybersecurity event on record
Cyber-crime13 Nov 2023 | 38
Introducing the tech that keeps the lights on
Opinion Genuinely new ideas are rare in IT – this superhero is ready to make a real difference
Security13 Nov 2023 | 21
Fortinet squashes hijack-my-VPN bug in FortiOS gear
And it's already being exploited in the wild, probably
Patches12 Jun 2023 | 2
Microsoft tries a deeper dive into Azure Firewall traffic
If the flow slows, you need to know why
Off-Prem16 May 2023 | 3
WordPress plugin hole puts '2 million websites' at risk
XSS marks the spot
Patches08 May 2023 | 17
Fortinet's latest firewall promises hyperscale security while sipping power
Need more speed? Just stuff it with custom ASICs
Energy Efficient Datacenters12 Apr 2023 | 4
Fortinet's latest ASIC promises 2.5Gbps of SSL inspection at the edge
New entry-level firewalls to follow
Systems07 Feb 2023 | 9
Domain aging gang CashRewindo picks vintage sites to push malvertising
Like fine wine, the longer it sits, the better it is
Cyber-crime02 Dec 2022 | 22
Fortinet's cloud firewall ditches custom ASICs for Amazon's Graviton CPUs
You might say they've Arm-ed their security suite for battle
Off-Prem29 Nov 2022 |
Fortinet's latest hyperscale kit packs 2.4Tbit/sec of firewall into a 4U chassis
And it only took 16 ASICs
Networks04 Aug 2022 | 2
Bank had no firewall license, intrusion or phishing protection – guess the rest
Crooks used RAT to hijack superusers at India's Mahesh Bank, stole millions
Security05 Apr 2022 | 96
Sophos fixes critical hijack flaw in firewall offering
Authentication bypass followed by remote-code execution at the network boundary
Security28 Mar 2022 |
‘Precursor malware’ infection may be sign you're about to get ransomware, says startup
As more and more biz pays up to restore data, we're told
Security26 Mar 2022 | 15
Cisco warns firewall customers of four-day window for urgent updates
Firewalls are supposed to update so they block new threats – miss this deadline and they might not
Security23 Feb 2022 | 12
Biting the hand that feeds IT
