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Sophos was forced to backport a security update for CVE-2022-3236 for end-of-life firewall firmware versions after discovering hackers actively exploiting the flaw in attacks. Although the hotfix was automatically rolled out to appliances set to auto-accept security updates by the vendor, by January 2023, over 4,000 internet-exposed appliances remained vulnerable to attacks.
Cisco's executive veep for security Jeetu Patel has predicted that AI will change the infosec landscape, but that end users will eventually pay for the privilege of having a binary brainbox by their side when they go into battle. Speaking at the Asia Pacific incarnation of the Cisco Live event today, in Melbourne, Australia, Patel offered the infosec maxim that attackers only need to get it right once, but defenders need to get it right every time.
Zyxel has released patches to address 15 security issues impacting network-attached storage (NAS), firewall, and access point (AP) devices, including three critical flaws that could lead to...
Windows 11 will no longer add SMB1 Windows Defender Firewall rules when creating new SMB shares starting with today's Canary Channel Insider Preview Build 25992 build. Before this change and since Windows XP SP2, creating SMB shares set up firewall rules automatically within the "File and Printer Sharing" group for the specified firewall profiles.
Firewall and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack prevention mechanisms in Cloudflare can be circumvented by exploiting gaps in cross-tenant security controls, defeating the very purpose of...
New research has found that close to 12,000 internet-exposed Juniper firewall devices are vulnerable to a recently disclosed remote code execution flaw. VulnCheck, which discovered a new exploit for CVE-2023-36845, said it could be exploited by an "Unauthenticated and remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on Juniper firewalls without creating a file on the system."
About 79 percent of public-facing Juniper SRX firewalls remain vulnerable to a single security flaw can allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute code on the devices, according to threat intelligence platform provider VulnCheck. Juniper revealed and addressed five flaws, which affect all versions of Junos OS on SRX firewalls and EX Series switches, in an out-of-cycle security bulletin on August 17.
What does optimal software security analysis look like?In this Help Net Security interview, Kevin Valk, co-CEO at Codean, discusses the consequences of relying solely on automated tools for software security. Apple offers security researchers specialized iPhones to tinker withApple is inviting security researchers to apply for its Security Research Device Program again, to discover vulnerabilities and earn bug bounties.
Recently disclosed security flaws impacting Juniper firewalls, Openfire, and Apache RocketMQ servers have come under active exploitation in the wild, according to multiple reports. "This flaw allows an unauthorized user to exploit the unauthenticated Openfire Setup Environment within an established Openfire configuration," cloud security firm Aqua said.
Proof-of-concept exploit code has been publicly released for vulnerabilities in Juniper SRX firewalls that, when chained, can allow unauthenticated attackers to gain remote code execution in Juniper's JunOS on unpatched devices.Juniper disclosed four medium-severity bugs in its EX switches and SRX firewalls and released security patches two weeks ago.