Three Keys to Infusing Security into your Corporate Culture

Creating a security-oriented culture is a challenge for many businesses. There's a natural tension between development teams, that are under constant pressure to get new applications and features to market as quickly as possible, and security teams that need to protect critical systems and...

Streamlining Patch Management: Expert Advice

Patch management has been a song of constant sorrows for system administrator. There have been improvements. But still, 80 percent of enterprise systems feature unpatched CVE vulnerabilities, according CA Veracode’s State of Software Security. The good news is, software patching has gotten better...

WaterISAC Releases Cybersecurity Fundamentals

The Water Information Sharing and Analysis Center WaterISAC recently released an updated cybersecurity fundamentals guide for water and wastewater utilities. The guide includes cybersecurity best practices, grouped into 15 categories, to help sector utilities reduce exploitable weaknesses and...

7 Easy-to-Use Java Performance Tuning Tips

By Owais Sultan Are you looking for easy-to-use Java performance tuning tips because you want to learn more developer knowledge and experience because of the current over-complicated process of optimization techniques? With a bit of practice, there are a few easy ways to learn best practices that...

NIST Releases Report on Managing IoT Risks

The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST has released the Considerations for Managing Internet of Things IoT Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks report. The publication—the first in a planned series on IoT—aims to help federal agencies and other organizations manage the cybersecurity a...

CVE-2018-18406

An issue was discovered in Tufin SecureTrack 18.1 with TufinOS 2.16 build 1179Final. The Audit Report module is affected by a blind XXE vulnerability when a new Best Practices Report is saved using a special payload inside the xml input field. The XXE vulnerability is blind since the response...

CVE-2018-18406

An issue was discovered in Tufin SecureTrack 18.1 with TufinOS 2.16 build 1179Final. The Audit Report module is affected by a blind XXE vulnerability when a new Best Practices Report is saved using a special payload inside the xml input field. The XXE vulnerability is blind since the response...

Microsoft Pushes Azure Users to Patch Linux Systems

Microsoft is warning customers that some Azure installations are vulnerable to a recently-disclosed critical Linux Exim mail server flaw that is under active attack. The warning comes after a widespread worm campaign was disclosed on Friday, targeting a flaw in the Exim mail transport agent MTA,...

Prevent the impact of a Linux worm by updating Exim (CVE-2019-10149)

This week, MSRC confirmed the presence of an active Linux worm leveraging a critical Remote Code Execution RCE vulnerability, CVE-2019-10149, in Linux Exim email servers running Exim version 4.87 to 4.91. Microsoft Azure infrastructure and Services are not affected; only customer’s Linux IaaS...

Partial Physical Address Leakage Advisory

Summary: A potential security vulnerability in some microprocessors may allow partial information disclosure via local access. Vulnerability Details: CVEID: CVE-2019-0174 Description: Logic condition in specific microprocessors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable partial physica...

FBI Releases Article on Protected Voices Campaign

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released an article on the Protected Voices initiative designed to mitigate the risk of cyber influence operations targeting U.S. elections. As part of the initiative, FBI offices are coordinating with political campaigns at the local, state, and federa...

Google Is Finally Making Chrome Extensions More Secure

Third-party developers don't always build extensions with security best practices in mind. Now Google is taking steps to better protect user data...

Schneider Electric Modicon Controllers (Update A)

GENERAL SECURITY RECOMMENDATIONS We strongly recommend the following industry cybersecurity best practices. https://www.se.com/us/en/download/document/7EN52-0390/ Locate control and safety system networks and remote devices behind firewalls and isolate them from the business network. Install...

Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Update (March)

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

Call For Customer Presentations at Black Hat USA 2019!

Tell your security story to your peers at Black Hat USA 2019! Qualys is looking for customers excited to share your security story, for example: How you integrate security into DevOps Best practices for building security into modern enterprises Case studies leveraging the use of the Qualys Cloud...

Intel® Core Processors Memory Mapping Advisory

Summary: A potential security vulnerability in some microprocessors may allow information disclosure. Vulnerability Details: CVEID: CVE-2019-0162 Description: Memory access in virtual memory mapping for some microprocessors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information...

MS-ISAC Releases Security Primer on LockerGoga Ransomware

The Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center MS-ISAC has released a Security Primer on LockerGoga Ransomware—a type of malicious software, or malware, designed to deny access to a computer system or data until a ransom is paid. Ransomware can be devastating to an individual or an...

Authentication Bypass in PAN-OS Management Web Interface

An Authentication Bypass vulnerability exists in the PAN-OS Management Web Interface. Ref PAN-113675, CVE-2019-1572 Successful exploitation of this issue may allow an unauthenticated remote user to access php files. This issue affects Only PAN-OS 9.0.0 Work around: This issue affects the web-base...

Authentication Bypass in PAN-OS Management Web Interface

An Authentication Bypass vulnerability exists in the PAN-OS Management Web Interface. Ref PAN-113675, CVE-2019-1572 Successful exploitation of this issue may allow an unauthenticated remote user to access php files. This issue affects Only PAN-OS 9.0.0 Work around: This issue affects the web-base...

Default configuration

SoftNAS Cloud 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 allows remote command execution. The NGINX default configuration file has a check to verify the status of a user cookie. If not set, a user is redirected to the login page. An arbitrary value can be provided for this cookie to access the web interface without valid...