On this week’s Network Break, Johna Johnson and Scott Robohn start with a serious vulnerability in IBM’s Langflow open source software. On the news front, a massive breach of tens of thousands of Fortinet firewalls exposes some of the world’s biggest companies, the US government gets sued over an order to shut down powerful AI... Read more »

Brute Force Password Attack Bleeds Fortinet; US Sued Over AI Model Order

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**Podcast:** Network Break

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[SPEAKER_A] Take a network break. I'm Johna Johnson.

[SPEAKER_B] I'm Scott Robohn.

[SPEAKER_A] Time to sip an energizing libation or maybe two as we sweep through this week's tech news. There's a lot going on with the US federal government, including the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, news about Fortinet, Palo Alto, Verizon, Google, and more. Plus, we've got an update on Al Pacino. But first, a quick thank you to our sponsor.

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[SPEAKER_A] Okay, before we get officially started, I'd like to address a few quick follow-ups. First, last week, Scott, you were right. The advertisement featuring the tagline, "Can you hear me now?" was in fact Verizon. Stay tuned because Verizon's still in the news, but points to you for that.

[SPEAKER_B] It is confusing because the guy did jump to Sprint for a time after his Verizon gig. So, you know, there you go. The streams are interesting. Yeah.

[SPEAKER_A] Yes. And also the person we were thinking of who got nailed for tax evasion but was actually a major mobster was Al Capone, not Al Pacino. Al Capone was indeed caught for tax evasion rather than his mobster activities. As far as we know, Al Pacino has never been on the wrong side of the law for anything. So apologies to Mr. Pacino for using his name in vain. If you're listening, Mr. Pacino, sorry about that.

[SPEAKER_B] And for multiple sharp listeners who phoned that in, including Mrs. Robohn, thank you, Stephanie, for texting me that yesterday.

[SPEAKER_A] Yes, yes. Okay, moving along, we're going to kick off with the red alert. The red alert this week goes to IBM. In CVE-2026-10561, with a CVSS of a full 10 out of 10, IBM says its Langflow operating systems 1.00 through 1.9.3 have a vulnerability due to an improper isolation of Python execution combined with an authentication bypass that allows, drum roll please, an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the host system, resulting in complete compromise. Oops. Complete compromise of anything is not words you really wanna hear. Just to let folks know, Langflow is an open source, low-code tool for building AI agents and other AI applications through a drag and drop visual interfac...

Brute Force Password Attack Bleeds Fortinet; US Sued Over AI Model Order

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