TY - JOUR T1 - Hardware Firewall Bypass (HWFWBYPASS) Attack on pfSense AU - Edgar, Moran AU - Octavio Jose, Salcedo Parra AU - Juan Manuel, Sanchez Cespedes JO - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences VL - 12 IS - 23 SP - 7154 EP - 7158 PY - 2017 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1816-949x DO - jeasci.2017.7154.7158 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2017.7154.7158 KW - pfSense KW - KW -remote desktop protocol KW -hardware firewall by pass KW -attack KW -sense KW -mitigation AB - This study provides documentary evidence of the evaluation and implementation of pfSense’s defense and protection mechanisms to avoid a HWFTBYPASS (Hardware firewall bypass) attack which is implemented through Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). pfSense is an extremely robust open network security software. To achieve the above, the part of the attack that corresponds to the bypass the hardware firewall will be implemented in such a way that it will be possible to infer whether pfSense is by default vulnerable or not and in that case, mitigation methods will be addressed. ER -