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Human firewalls: The first line of defense against cyber threats in 2025

CIO

What is a human firewall? A human firewall is a collective effort of individuals within an organization that fights and wards off cybersecurity threats (such as phishing and ransomware), especially ones that use social engineering. It also boasts a massive advantage over hardware and software firewalls: common sense.

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These Services Shall Not Pass: Abusing Service Tags to Bypass Azure Firewall Rules (Customer Action Required)

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Azure customers whose firewall rules rely on Azure Service Tags, pay attention: You could be at risk due to a vulnerability detected by Tenable Research. Tenable Research has discovered a vulnerability in Azure that allows an attacker to bypass firewall rules based on Azure Service Tags by forging requests from trusted services.

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CVE-2024-55591: Fortinet Authentication Bypass Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

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Fortinet patched a zero day authentication bypass vulnerability in FortiOS and FortiProxy that has been actively exploited in the wild as a zero-day since November 2024. CVE Description CVSSv3 CVE-2024-55591 FortiOS and FortiProxy Authentication Bypass Vulnerability 9.6 websocket module. through 7.0.16 Upgrade to 7.0.17 through 7.0.19

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CVE-2020-2021: Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Vulnerable to Critical Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

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Critical authentication bypass vulnerability in PAN-OS devices could be exploited in certain configurations, which are commonly recommended by identity providers. PAN-OS is the custom operating system (OS) that Palo Alto Networks (PAN) uses in their next-generation firewalls. Authentication and Captive Portal. Background.

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Secure Your 5G Business Transformation

Palo Alto Networks

While the 5G standard includes strong security features, like user authentication, privacy, encryption and some protection for signaling traffic, these are not designed to detect or stop advanced threats in mobile traffic. And its definitely not enough to protect enterprise, government or industrial businesses.

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CVE-2020-12271: Zero-Day SQL Injection Vulnerability in Sophos XG Firewall Exploited in the Wild

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Sophos pushes a hotfix to address a SQL injection vulnerability in Sophos XG Firewall that was exploited in the wild. On April 22, Sophos published a knowledge base entry on the Sophos Community regarding the discovery of a zero-day vulnerability in the Sophos XG Firewall that was exploited in the wild. Background. Proof of concept.

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Kubernetes Security Risks and Protection Methods

The Crazy Programmer

You could also implement firewalls manually to stop unauthorized users from gaining access. Setting an authentication process for external ports will reduce vulnerabilities. For the external ports that you do need, create an authentication process for people to gain access.