A new critical security vulnerability in the RADIUS protocol, dubbed BlastRADIUS, leaves most networking equipment open to Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks. While the vulnerability can be difficult to exploit, the possible impact of an exploit is substantial. What’s at stake? To protect businesses from BlastRADIUS, “every network switch, router, firewall, VPN concentrator, access point, and DSL gateway worldwide needs to be updated to add integrity and authentication checks for these packets,” explains Alan DeKok, CEO of … More →

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