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500GB leak exposes China’s Great Firewall files used for global censorship

On September 11, a huge breach exposed the inner workings of China’s powerful internet censorship system. More than 500GB of internal documents, source code, work logs, and internal communications ...
Yahoo

China’s Great Firewall suffers its biggest leak ever as 500GB of source code and docs spill online — censorship tool has been sold to three different countries

Chinese censorship sprang a major leak on September 11, when researchers confirmed that more than 500GB of internal documents, source code, work logs, and internal communications from the so-called ...
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Microsoft Windows Firewall complains about Microsoft code

A mysterious piece of "under development" code is playing havoc with the Windows Firewall after the latest preview update for Windows 11 24H2.… The problem ...
Bleeping Computer

Critical Sophos Firewall vulnerability allows remote code execution

Sophos has fixed a critical vulnerability in its Sophos Firewall product that allows remote code execution (RCE). Tracked as CVE-2022-1040, the authentication bypass vulnerability exists in the User ...
ZDNet

Malicious code could trick ZoneAlarm firewall

Malicious code masquerading as a trusted application could trick a ZoneAlarm firewall into letting it connect to the Internet, security experts have warned. The issue affects the popular free ...
Ars Technica

Attackers exploit 0-day code-execution flaw in the Sophos firewall

Users of a widely used firewall from Sophos have been under a zero-day attack that was designed to steal usernames, cryptographically protected passwords, and other sensitive data, officials with the ...