Update 2/11/25 07:32 PM ET: After publishing our story, Fortinet has informed us that the new CVE-2025-24472 flaw added to FG-IR-24-535 today is not a zero-day and was already fixed in January.

The vendor warned about the high exploitation possibility of the flaw in a bulletin on January 7, urging administrators to upgrade their SonicOS firewalls' firmware to address the problem.

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The Taiwanese vendor updated application signatures for some of its firewalls between Friday and Saturday but insists the issues are unrelated to security or specific vulnerabilities. "We've found an ...

Eclypsium warns that Palo Alto Networks firewalls are impacted by BIOS and bootloader flaws, but the vendor says users should not be concerned. Enterprise firmware and hardware security company ...

Though Windows 11 has a robust firewall, you need to optimize the settings to maximize the first line of defense. In this guide, we will discuss some of the best practices for the Windows 11 firewall.

Palo Alto Networks has released new indicators of compromise (IoCs) a day after the network security vendor confirmed that a zero-day vulnerability impacting its PAN-OS firewall management interface ...

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