pfSense is one of the most powerful open-source firewalls and routers available. Running it inside VMware Workstation Pro 17 (the current 2025 version) is an excellent way to build a lab or even ...

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As I've started to build up a little home lab, I've been playing around with the idea of either building or buying a PC to run pfsense on and use as my primary (edge?) router. That is, I would run my ...

Cisco Systems closed its $28 billion all-cash acquisition of cybersecurity and analytics company Splunk on Monday. The deal, the largest in Cisco’s history, was completed months earlier than projected ...

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Networking giant Cisco acquired digital infrastructure company Splunk and says the merger will allow them to "supercharge" and revolutionize the way it wields artificial intelligence for its customers ...

Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR): Increased by 15% to $4.2 billion. Q4 GAAP Net Income: Achieved $427 million, with a significant increase in operating cash flow. Cloud Revenue Growth: Cloud revenue up ...

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the open-source Netgate pfSense firewall solution called pfSense that could be chained by an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on ...

Roughly 1,450 pfSense instances exposed online are vulnerable to command injection and cross-site scripting flaws that, if chained, could enable attackers to perform remote code execution on the ...