Caution: FortiSwitches may Crash after 250 Days of Uptime!

Last update: 30. July 2026 A critical software defect (Bug ID: 1286219) has been identified in Fortinet’s FortiSwitch operating system that causes the Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon to freeze and consume excessive CPU resources on affected devices. The issue manifests after approximately 250 days of continuous uptime, potentially leading…

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New Fortinet Vulnerabilities (March 2023)

Most of you have already read about the latest release of Fortinet’s new PSIRT advisories. There are 15 new vulnerabilities for FortiOS and other products with severity level from low up to critical. We strongly recommend that you checkt the PSIRT advisories and update your Fortinet products to one of…

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Exchange Pwn2Own Vulnerability April 2021 (Yes, a new one – it’s not Hafnium anymore!)

Let’s mention the important things first: Please patch you vulnerable Exchange 2013, 2016 and 2019 immediately! The page msxfaq has published an infosite to this vulnerability including the instructions how to fix your Exchange. Some security researchers have demonstrated three high risk vulnerabilities for exchange server systems. Microsoft has published…

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Exchange Hafnium Vulnerability March 2021

Let’s mention the important things first: Please patch you vulnerable Exchange 2013, 2016 and 2019 immediately! The page msxfaq has published an infosite to this vulnerability including the instructions how to fix your Exchange. Even though we, as Boll Engineering AG, are not associated in any way with the affected…

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FortiGate SSLVPN Update-Empfehlung

Update, Nov 2020: More than a year after Fortinet described this SSLVPN vulnerability, it gets new attention. A few days ago a list of IPs and domain names of vulnerable Fortigates was published. This list is dated November 2019 and one can only hope that many of these systems have…

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