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5 stories taggedfirewall.

Cisco firewall manager had a hidden password. Attackers found it first.
A built-in account in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center was exploited as a zero-day in July, and Cisco is telling customers to patch and hunt for a specific log entry.

Fortinet unveils FortiGate 1200G firewall with built-in SASE enforcement for on-premises sites
The new midrange appliance pushes cloud-style security policy into company-controlled buildings and data centres, running at up to 397 Gbps. Availability is set for Q3 2026.

Check Point's Admin Console Has a Critical Flaw That Hands Attackers the Keys to Everything
A security hole in Check Point's management software lets criminals walk in without a password and rewrite the rules of an entire network. Ten organisations have already been hit.

CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Patch Palo Alto Firewall Flaw Being Exploited Now
A misconfigured URL filtering setting in Palo Alto Networks firewall software is letting attackers weaponise the firewalls themselves — turning them into unwitting cannons pointed at other targets.

Fortibleed: How 75,000 FortiGate Firewalls Ended Up on an Attacker's Credential List
Configuration files. Legacy SHA-256 hashes. Automation at scale. The Fortibleed campaign is a slow-burn credential harvest that perimeter defenders are still catching up to.