FortiBleed – 75k Fortinet firewalls have admin passwords cracked

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jtchang•about 1 hour ago

Article mentions the passwords were hashed with sha256 plus a salt. For a long password more than say 12 characters this would take a very long time to brute force. My guess is a lot of these were dictionary attacks ?

ThePowerOfFuet•about 2 hours ago

>The data comprises of roughly 50% of all Fortinet firewall devices facing the internet, based on polling from Shodan.

Jesus wept. When will companies stop using garbage products like this?

pixl97•about 2 hours ago

Narrator: They won't

Next year it will be come other company

And the year after that yet another, and so the cycle continues.