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Why Defenders Should Embrace a Hacker Mindset
Today's security leaders must manage a constantly evolving attack surface and a dynamic threat environment due to interconnected devices, cloud services, IoT technologies, and hybrid work environments. Adversaries are constantly introducing new attack techniques, and not all companies have intern...
The Importance of Continuous Security Monitoring for a Robust Cybersecurity Strategy
In 2023, the global average cost of a data breach reached $4.45 million. Beyond the immediate financial loss, there are long-term consequences like diminished customer trust, weakened brand value, and derailed business operations. In a world where the frequency and cost of data breaches are...
De-risking in Practice: How Qualys Customers are Driving Value in Their Organizations
As the threat landscape continues to grow in complexity, it has become more important than ever for the modern enterprise to measure, communicate, and eliminate cyber risk with efficiency. What does that mean in practice? Over the last two days, during the 2023 Qualys Security Conference QSC taki...
Cybersecurity at a Crossroads: New Implications on Business Risk
During our 2023 Qualys Security Conference QSC taking place in Orlando, Florida, November 6-9, 2023, I unveiled an exciting new milestone for the company – the release of our new Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform, marking a seismic shift for the future of Qualys as a leader in managing and...
CVE-2023-5516
Poorly constructed webap requests and URI components with special characters trigger unhandled errors and exceptions, disclosing information about the underlying technology and other sensitive information details. The website unintentionally reveals sensitive information including technical detai...
Design/Logic Flaw
Poorly constructed webap requests and URI components with special characters trigger unhandled errors and exceptions, disclosing information about the underlying technology and other sensitive information details. The website unintentionally reveals sensitive information including technical detai...
Security Patch Management Strengthens Ransomware Defense
With thousands of applications to manage, enterprises need an effective way to prioritize software security patches. That calls for a contextualized, risk-based approach and good overall attack surface risk management...
Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Security: Encryption). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.33 and prior. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized read access to a subset of MySQL Server accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 2.7 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N).
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CVE-2023-20198: Active Exploitation of Cisco IOS XE Zero-Day Vulnerability
On Monday, October 16, Cisco’s Talos group published a blog on an active threat campaign exploiting CVE-2023-20198, a “previously unknown” zero-day vulnerability in the web UI component of Cisco IOS XE software. IOS XE is an operating system that runs on a wide range of Cisco networking devices,...
An analysis of an in-the-wild iOS Safari WebContent to GPU Process exploit
By Ian Beer A graph representation of the sandbox escape NSExpression payload In April this year Google's Threat Analysis Group, in collaboration with Amnesty International, discovered an in-the-wild iPhone zero-day exploit chain being used in targeted attacks delivered via malicious link. The...
The vulnerability of backup and data recovery software on computers and servers with Acronis Agent, as well as Acronis Cyber Protect 15, stems from the use of unlimited IP addresses. This leads to an increase in the surface area for attacks, allowing attackers to gain unauthorized access to the system.
The vulnerability of backup and data recovery software on computers and servers involves Acronis Agent and Acronis CyberProtect 15 data protection software. This vulnerability is related to the use of an unlimited IP address, which increases the scope of possible attacks. Exploiting this...
A Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Guide for Leaders
Cybersecurity risk assessment provides the continuous asset detection, analysis, prioritization, and risk scoring needed to keep pace with a continuously growing digital attack surface...
Protecting your IT infrastructure with Security Configuration Assessment (SCA)
Security Configuration Assessment SCA is critical to an organization's cybersecurity strategy. SCA aims to discover vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that malicious actors exploit to gain unauthorized access to systems and data. Regular security configuration assessments are essential in...
Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2023: 4 Actionable Tips
Make Cybersecurity Awareness Month a year-long initiative with these three actionable security tips to reduce cyber risk across the attack surface...
2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: API9:2023 Improper Inventory Management
Welcome to the 10th post in our weekly series on the new 2023 OWASP API Security Top-10 list, with a particular focus on security practitioners. This post will focus on API9:2023 Improper Inventory Management. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the impac...
Wallarm Webinar: NIST CSF 2.0, API Security, and CISO Imperatives
Last week, our good friend Raj Umadas, Director of Security at ActBlue, teamed up with our very own Tim Erlin, Head of Product, to talk about the newly proposed NIST Cybersecurity Framework CSF. It was a fantastic discussion covering the intent behind this update, the major changes from v1.1 to...
Think Your MFA and PAM Solutions Protect You? Think Again
When you roll out a security product, you assume it will fulfill its purpose. Unfortunately, however, this often turns out not to be the case. A new report, produced by Osterman Research and commissioned by Silverfort, reveals that MFA Multi-Factor Authentication and PAM Privileged Access...
China Unicom TEWA-800G Log Information Disclosure Vulnerability
The China Unicom TEWA-800G is a router from China Unicom China Unicom. A log information disclosure vulnerability exists in the China Unicom TEWA-800G version 4.16L.04CT2015Yueme, which stems from a debug log file that discloses sensitive information. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability ...
Security Updates for Windows Defender (September 2023)
The Malware Protection Engine version of Microsoft Windows Defender installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 1.1.23080.2005. It is, therefore, affected by an attack surface reduction vulnerability due to security features bypass. A remote attacker can trick a victim to open a specially...