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FireStorm Vulnerability Leaves Next-Gen Enterprise Firewalls Open to Attacks

  • 11 December 2015
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By Catalin Cimpanu    11 Dec 2015
 

Attackers can run network tunnels via TCP SYN packets

 
Security researchers have uncovered a way to beat enterprise-grade firewalls and siphon data out of corporate networks via TCP handshakes.
 
The vulnerability, codenamed FireStorm, was discovered in a joint investigation by BugSec Group and Cynet. According to the researchers, the vulnerability resides in how enterprise firewalls treat TCP connections.
 
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Back to the drawing board for these developers of enterprise grad firewalls, anything can be broken into.....in time......they have to stay on top of this at all times.

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