Cisco patches critical security hole in Firewall Management Center - act now

• Cisco's Secure Firewall Management Center security hole is as bad as they get.
• There is no mitigation and no workaround. Patch immediately.
• So far, no confirmed active exploits have been confirmed.

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Do you use Cisco's Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software? If your company operates a serious network using Cisco products -- and with Cisco's 76%+ market share of high-end networking, chances are that you do -- you must patch it. Not over the weekend. Not Monday. Right now.

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