Security firm F-Secure has issued a warning about security issues in some common configurations for F5 Networks’ Big-IP load balancer. According to the security firm’s researchers, unless addressed, ...

Logan Harbaugh is a longtime technology journalist. A load balancer distributes traffic among a number of servers or connections, either to increase the overall capability of a system to handle heavy ...

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Not everyone using BIG-IP will be affected, but the load balancer’s popularity amongst banks, governments, and other entities that provide online services to large numbers of people, combined with the ...

Expanded partnership delivers tighter integration between Cisco ACI tools and F5 BIG-IP DNS software to improve application availability and performance for mutual customers. Cisco and F5 have ...

With the new release, solution providers can offer customers high availability, scalability, security and enhanced performance for applications such as SIP-based voice over IP, Web services or mobile ...

F5 is warning BIG-IP admins that devices are being breached by "skilled" hackers exploiting two recently disclosed vulnerabilities to erase signs of their access and achieve stealthy code execution.

On October 15, application security vendor F5, Inc. disclosed that a highly sophisticated nation-state threat actor maintained long-term, persistent access to certain F5 systems. The attackers ...

Attackers can exploit a vulnerability in the F5 BIG-IP appliances to extend their rights and manipulate the configuration. This could compromise the BIG-IP system, the manufacturer warns. According to ...