Cisco, Fortinet Issue Patches To Counter NSA Malware
Firewall solution providers, Cisco and Fortinet have issued security advisories confirming that vulnerabilities exposed by the mysterious Shadow Brokers do exist and affect their products. Both companies have issued fixes addressing the exploits that were recently made public. According to the report published in ZD Net, a group calling itself the Shadow Brokers, claims to have stolen a set of hacking tools from a group dubbed the Equation Group, which researchers believe is an elite unit of the US intelligence agency. The Shadow Brokers described the tools as “cyber weapons” used...