Hackers backed by a powerful nation state have been exploiting two zero day vulnerabilities in Cisco firewalls in a five month long campaign that breaks into government networks around the world, researchers reported Wednesday. The attacks against Ciscos Adaptive Security Appliances firewalls are the latest in a rash of network compromises that target firewalls, VPNs, and network perimeter devices, which are designed to provide a moated gate of sorts that keeps remote hackers out. Over the past...
