That “Safe” Guest Wi-Fi Network May Not Be Isolating Anyone
Wi-Fi has become the invisible wiring of modern life. Billions of devices rely on it every day, from phones and laptops to smart TVs and industrial systems. That scale has always made wireless security a high-stakes problem. Now new research shows that a fundamental protection built into nearly every router can be quietly bypassed, allowing attackers on the same network to intercept and tamper with traffic that was supposed to be isolated and protected. [Read more…]
So… turns out one of the leading enterprise security products forgot the “security” part. More than 16,000 Fortinet devices exposed to the internet have been found carrying a persistent symlink backdoor—one that grants read-only access to sensitive files.