back to article US govt warns foreign hackers 'will likely try to exploit' critical firewall bypass bug in Palo Alto gear – patch now

Palo Alto Networks has issued a fix for a security hole in its firewall products – one so serious, Uncle Sam urged organizations to patch it ASAP as foreign hackers "will likely attempt to exploit it soon." IT admins should apply mitigations or update the PAN-OS firmware in their gateways to squash the CVE-2020-2021 bug – a 10 …

  1. IGotOut Silver badge

    Patch Now

    Johnny Foreigner will be hacking you! Our own God Fearing Patriotic Hackers will be lovely and huggy and won't exploit this bloody great hole.

    Everyday Xenophobia is alive and well.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Patch Now

      Exactly, any bug in foreign software is a state sponsored cyber attack, "our" software is another matter!

  2. crayon

    Good thing native hackers won't be exploiting it.

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