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State-backed hackers are already exploiting the Palo Alto firewall zero-day to gain root access on government networks

Federal agencies are racing to lock down their Palo Alto Networks firewalls after a zero-day vulnerability surfaced that ...
Forbes

Massachusetts 911 Outage Triggered By Firewall, Not A Hack, Officials Say

Massachusetts officials announced Wednesday that the state’s 911 outage on Tuesday was caused by a firewall, quelling concerns the more than an hour-long crash was the result of a cyberattack. The ...
SecurityWeek

Palo Alto Networks to Patch Zero-Day Exploited to Hack Firewalls

Palo Alto Networks is working on patches for a critical PAN-OS zero-day that has been exploited to hack some of the company’s ...
Bleeping Computer

Palo Alto Networks warns of firewall hijack bugs with public exploit

Palo Alto Networks warned customers today to patch security vulnerabilities (with public exploit code) that can be chained to let attackers hijack PAN-OS firewalls. The flaws were found in Palo Alto ...
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Hack exposes flaws in building apps behind "Great Firewall"

The hackers targeted the App Store via a counterfeit version of Apple's Xcode "toolkit" - the software used to build apps to run on its iOS operating system China's "Great Firewall" may have been ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

US Sanctions Chinese Firm at Center of Global Firewall Hack

The US government has sanctioned a Chinese cybersecurity company and one of its employees for their involvement in the large-scale compromise of firewalls in April 2020. The hacked firewalls were ...