Palo Alto Networks Inc. today disclosed a vulnerability in its Pan-OS firewall operating system that is being actively targeted by hackers. The exploit, which is tracked as CVE-2024-3400, has received ...

Cisco’s Talos research team says it’s monitoring a ‘global increase in brute-force attacks’ against targets including VPN services, while an exploit has been released for a critical vulnerability in ...

Firewalls act as gatekeepers that regulate data flow between internal and external networks based on security rules, while ...

Update 4/16/24: Updated story with more information on how previous mitigations do not protect devices. Exploit code is now available for a maximum severity and actively exploited vulnerability in ...

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Hackers are actively trying to simultaneously exploit three vulnerabilities in unpatched Palo Alto Networks firewall appliances. These flaws, all affecting Palo Alto’s PAN-OS web management interface, ...

The company says fixes are now available for the flaw affecting several versions of its PAN-OS firewall software. Meanwhile, researchers from Volexity say that a ‘spike in exploitation’ is likely.

Linux is highly secure, but you should still have a firewall. You should know if your ISP's hardware (gateway) uses a firewall. One of the easiest Linux firewalls is UFW and its GUI sidekick, GUFW.