Oh, For Fucking Christ’ Sake: Another SonicWall Clusterfuck

Right. So, some “hackers” – and I use that term loosely because honestly, if you can break into this, you’re barely a script kiddie – managed to get their grubby mitts on backups of SonicWall cloud firewall configurations. Configurations! Not the firewalls themselves, mind you, just the *settings*. Still bad, obviously.

Apparently, this happened through some misconfigured S3 buckets (because security by obscurity is clearly a winning strategy). Now everyone running SonicWall’s cloud service needs to scramble and check if their data was part of the leak. They’re talking about potential for remote access, network compromise, all that lovely stuff. Basically, everything you paid good money to *prevent* could be undone because someone left the keys under the doormat.

SonicWall is saying they’ve patched things and are “investigating,” which is corporate-speak for “we’re trying not to get sued.” They want everyone to rotate their API keys, check logs, the whole nine yards. You know, all the stuff you *should* have been doing anyway if you weren’t relying on a vendor to magically secure everything for you.

Honestly, I’m starting to think “SonicWall” should be synonymous with “security disaster.” Don’t even get me started. Just… don’t.

Link: https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/hackers-access-sonicwall-cloud-firewall.html

Related Anecdote: Back in ’98, I had a user who thought changing the default password on their router to “password” was sufficient security. I swear, some people are actively trying to get hacked. This SonicWall thing? It’s just that, but scaled up and involving actual infrastructure. Makes you question humanity, it really does.

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