CVE-2018-11711

CVE-2018-11711 describes a remote bypass of System Manager Mode on Canon MF210/MF220 web interfaces. An unauthenticated attacker can access without a PIN by leveraging vectors involving /portal_top.html (and related /login.html) to obtain full device access. Exploitation is demonstrated in public...

How To Prioritize Vulnerabilities in a Modern IT Environment

Here’s a stat that shows the importance of prioritizing vulnerability remediation: Almost 30% of the CVEs disclosed in 2017 had a CVSS score of “High” or “Critical.” That works out to about 3,000 such vulnerabilities, or about 58 every week. Given this large number of severe vulnerabilities, it’s...

Protecting the Veeam Backup & Replication server

Purpose This article provides information about protecting the Veeam Backup & Replication Configuration. This addresses the frequently asked question: "How do I back up or protect the Veeam Server?" The only supported way to protect the configuration of Veeam Backup & Replication is to use the...

Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Default Simple Network Management Protocol Community Strings

With new installations of Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Software, the installation scripts create default communities for Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP Version 2 SNMPv2 and a default username for SNMP Version 3 SNMPv3, both allowing for read and write access. As documented in the Cisco...

ExpressionEngine: RCE By import channel field

The reporter determined that a malicious Channel Set could be used to allow an administrator to upload a PHP file that they might otherwise not have permission to upload. Combined with the temporary folder name algorithm being available in the source code, the malicious administrator could...

Call For Customer Presentations at Black Hat USA 2018!

Tell your security story to your peers at Black Hat USA 2018! Qualys is looking for customers excited to share their security and DevSecOps successes, best practices for building security into modern enterprises and case studies leveraging the use of the Qualys Cloud Platform. Take the stage in t...

Partner Perspectives: How an IT Service Provider and Red Canary Stopped a Malware Outbreak

Editor's Note: This blog originally appeared on redcanary.com. In this post, a technical account manager recounts how Red Canary partnered with an IT service provider to help one of their customers stop a rapidly spreading network worm. This blog goes behind the scenes of the incident response...

Accelerate your security deployment with FastTrack for Microsoft 365

This blog is part of a series that responds to common questions we receive from customers about Microsoft 365 Security and Enterprise Mobility + Security. In this series youll find context, answers, and guidance for deployment and driving adoption within your organization. Inpart one of this...

Highlights from the HITRUST Third-Party Assurance Summit

The HITRUST TPA Summit brought together experts representing customers, vendors, and assessor firms in various aspects of risk management to share best practices, lessons learned and effective third-party risk management strategies leveraging the HITRUST CSF Assurance Program and HITRUST Assessme...

App Layering - Best Practice for Printing

Best practice and guideline for printing in 2.x and 3.x. Create a printer layer for your printers for ease of updating and troubleshooting any problems Layering of printer drivers is recommended Use inbox drivers vs. 3rd party drivers Create a GPO or logon script to define a default layer...

The Archimedes Medical Device Security 101 Conference - A Secure Forum for Security Issues

The University of Michigans Archimedes Center for Medical Device Security hosted its second annual MDS 101 conference in Orlando this month. The conference provides a secure forum for attendees to speak freely about cybersecurity issues with respected professionals who can help establish best...

Cybersecurity Certification Courses – CISA, CISM, CISSP

The year 2017 saw some of the biggest cybersecurity incidents—from high profile data breaches in Equifax and Uber impacting millions of users to thousands of businesses and millions of customers being affected by the global ransomware threats like WannaCry and NotPetya. The year ended, but it did...

Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Update

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 vendo...

Symantec Messaging Gateway Directory Traversal

SUMMARY Symantec has released an update to address one issue in the Symantec Messaging Gateway product. AFFECTED PRODUCTS Symantec Messaging Gateway SMG --- CVE | Affected Versions | Remediation CVE-2017-15532 | Prior to 10.6.4 | Upgrade to 10.6.4 ISSUES CVE-2017-15532 --- Severity/CVSSv3: | Medi...

Command Injection in PAN-OS

A vulnerability exists in the PAN-OS web interface packet capture management that could allow an authenticated user to inject arbitrary commands. Ref PAN-81892 / CVE-2017-15940 PAN-OS contains a vulnerability that may allow for post authentication command injection This issue affects PAN-OS 6.1.1...

Vulnerability in PAN-OS and Panorama on Management Interface

Through the exploitation of a combination of unrelated vulnerabilities, and via the management interface of the device, an attacker could remotely execute code on PAN-OS or Panorama in the context of the highest privileged user. Ref PAN-61094 / PAN-80990 / PAN-80993 / PAN-80994 / CVE-2017-15944...

Server-Side Request Forgery in PAN-OS

A vulnerability exists in the PAN-OS web interface in the configuration file import for applications, spyware and vulnerability objects. Exploitation of this vulnerability allows for the parsing of external entities and could lead a PAN-OS device to connect to and disclose limited information to...

Implementing the CIS 20 Critical Security Controls: Building Upon Foundational Cyber Hygiene

Most successful cyber attacks exploit known vulnerabilities for which patches are available, or take advantage of weak configuration settings that could have been easily hardened. You can significantly lower the risk of being victimized by this type of common, preventable attack by adopting the...

Implementing the CIS 20 Critical Security Controls: Slash Risk of Cyber Attacks by 85%

If a CISO needed to cut cyber attack risk by 85%, how would this security chief go about accomplishing that? Would the CISO even know where to begin? It’s safe to say that such a mandate would be considered daunting, and maybe even overwhelming. CISOs are scrambling to protect IT infrastructures...

Symantec Endpoint Encryption Various Issues

SUMMARY Symantec has released an update to address two issues in the Symantec Endpoint Encryption product. AFFECTED PRODUCTS Symantec Endpoint Encryption SEE --- CVE | Affected Versions | Remediation CVE-2017-15525 CVE-2017-15526 | Prior to 11.1.3MP1 | Upgrade to 11.1.3MP1 ISSUES CVE-2017-15525 -...