SSH Backdoor found in Fortinet firewalls

Re:SSH Backdoor found in Fortinet firewalls by vex on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @05:12PM (#10890809)

Their software is good, but their hardware? Awful. PFsense doesn't know how to do reliable hardware at all.

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Re:SSH Backdoor found in Fortinet firewalls by dgacmu on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @09:32PM (#10891980)

I'm surprised at this - I run four pfSense boxen; my two homebrew ones on repurposed old machines have both died on me at least once, and the two running on purchased pfSense hardware are still up & running. Anecdote != data and all that, but I'd buy their hardware again if I didn't have a large stack of machines I can reuse for "free." (ahem. free does not count my time or that of my students, but sometimes it's fun to admin things a little.)

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Re:SSH Backdoor found in Fortinet firewalls by alsetmusic on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @06:09PM (#10891133)

I own the SG-4860 and it's been solid for about eight months. It's the first hardware I've purchased from them and I have no regrets.

https://www.pfsense.org/products/product-family.html

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Re:SSH Backdoor found in Fortinet firewalls by snuxoll on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @06:58PM (#10891351)

Do you have any experience with the lower end SG-2220? I'm looking at replacing the Aspire Revo AR1600 I've hacked into a firewall at my aunt's shop running Sophos UTM with something that doesn't require a USB NIC, it looks like a pretty good value at the price.

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Re:SSH Backdoor found in Fortinet firewalls by gonzo on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @06:32PM (#10891232)

Thanks. It's what I run at home.

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Re:SSH Backdoor found in Fortinet firewalls by gonzo on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @05:30PM (#10890903)

Do you have specific points here?

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