Items tagged with Firewall

by Shane McGlaun - Sun, Apr 26, 2020

Sophos XG Firewalls Are Under SQL Injection Zero-Day Attack, Ensure You're Getting The Hotfix

Sophos has published an emergency security update to patch a zero-day vulnerability in its XG enterprise firewall product. The patch plugs a hole that was being abused in the wild by hackers. Sophos says that it learned of the zero-they exploit on Wednesday of last week, after receiving a report from one of its... Read more...

by Seth Colaner - Sat, Aug 27, 2011

Researchers Say Cellular Networks Have Major Issues

A group of researchers from the University of Michigan and Microsoft Research released a paper titled An Untold Story of Middleboxes in Cellular Networks in which they reveal why and how cellular service is both sub-optimal and insecure. How did they do it? They developed a tool called NetPiculet, which uses intelligent measurement to probe... Read more...

by Michael Santo - Tue, Nov 02, 2010

The Kindle Leaps Over the Great Firewall of China

Here's something that Chinese users will agree the Kindle does better than the iPad: scale the "Great Firewall of China." Sites such as Facebook and Twitter, which are blocked by Chinese authorities, can be accessed by the Kindle's Internet browsing functionality. The Kindle is only available in China's grey markets, however. A seller in Beijing... Read more...

by Gregory Sullivan - Wed, Oct 24, 2007

Forget Your Firewall. Guard Your Dumpster

If you're on the Internet, you must be aware of identity theft. Hardly a day goes by without news of another version of a phishing scam designed to coax the unwary into offering up their precious personal information, never mind the more complex and insidious malware approaches to theft. So information gathered for a study at Utica College... Read more...