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
Firewall
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
