State-backed hackers hammer Palo Alto firewall zero-day before patch lands

According to the vendor’s Unit 42 threat intelligence team, attacks are already underway and tied to a cluster of "likely ...

Palo Alto Networks warns of firewall RCE zero-day exploited in attacks

Palo Alto Networks warned customers today that a critical-severity unpatched vulnerability in the PAN-OS User-ID ...
The Hacker News

Palo Alto PAN-OS Flaw Under Active Exploitation Enables Remote Code Execution

"A buffer overflow vulnerability in the User-ID Authentication Portal (aka Captive Portal) service of Palo Alto Networks ...
SecurityWeek

Palo Alto Networks to Patch Zero-Day Exploited to Hack Firewalls

Palo Alto Networks is working on patches for a critical PAN-OS zero-day that has been exploited to hack some of the company’s ...
Ars Technica

Captive portal repeater

Frequently (if not "always"), captive portals are per-IP address. So, if you connect a laptop/phone/tablet to the network the Nest uses, you should be able to hit the captive portal page from it and ...
CNET

Amazon Fire TV gets captive portal access for hotel, dorm and apartment Wi-Fi (hands-on)

A new feature called captive portal access can break you out of entertainment lockdown. The feature is now live on Amazon and Fire TV box, making them hotel-friendlier than any other streaming device.