Microsoft and Imperva Collaboration Bolsters Data Compliance and Security Capabilities

This article explains how Imperva SecureSphere V13.2 has leveraged the latest Microsoft EventHub enhancements to help customers maintain compliance and security controls as regulated or sensitive data is migrated to Azure SQL database instances. Database as a Service Benefits Platform as a Servic...

State Government Online Payment Service Exposes 14M Customers

Details on more than 14 million customer records have been exposed thanks to a security oversight at GovPayNow.com, which as its name implies provides a platform for online payment systems for state and local governments. The company, which according to its website “handles more than 2.1 million...

Qualys Cloud Platform 8.15.2 New Features

Patch release of Qualys Cloud Platform, version 8.15.2, includes new support for Apache instance auto-discovery in Qualys Policy Compliance. Policy Compliance Apache Instance Auto-Discovery – This new feature in Qualys PC enables automatic discovery of Apache during compliance scans. Once one or...

Explainer Series: RDaaS Security and Managing Compliance Through Database Audit and Monitoring Controls

As organizations move to cloud database platforms they shouldn't forget that data security and compliance requirements remain an obligation. This article explains how you can apply database audit and monitoring controls using Imperva SecureSphere V13.2 when migrating to database as a service clou...

Microsoft Windows: Service: Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winconnecteduserexperience.nasl 11387 2018-09-14 12:19:57Z emoss $ Check value for Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service DiagTrack Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: firefox-62.0-2.fc27

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

Microsoft Windows: Turn On Virtualization Based Security

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winenablevirtualizationbasedsecurity.nasl 11381 2018-09-13 14:55:03Z emoss $ Check value for Turn On Virtualization Based Security Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Microsoft Windows: Enable Encrypted File System

The Encrypting File System EFS is a feature available in Windows which provides encryption in filesystem level. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

Qualys Helps Consultants, MSPs Deliver World-Class Security Services To Mid-Size Customers

With the newly available Qualys Consulting Edition, consultants and MSPs can now individually manage their mid-market client networks, keeping data separate and organized. This lets them offer their clients tailored, personalized services, with valuable insights and recommendations for threat...

Carbon Black Report: A Case Study on Threat Hunting

There are certain seminal experiences you’ll remember all your life — your first kiss, your college graduation, the smell of your favorite home-cooked meal — and then hundreds of mini-experiences that helped you reach each milestone that in short order disappeared from view. The memories you carr...

CVE-2017-1679

IBM OpenPages GRC Platform 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and 8.0 could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information from error log files. IBM X-Force ID: 134001...

Making Expect scripts for SSH Authentication and Privilege Elevation

Expect can help you to automate interactive console applications. For example, expect script can go to some Linux host via SSH with password authentication, make additional authentication procedures su, sudo to elevate privileges and execute some commands. Like Vulnerability and Compliance...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: firefox-62.0-2.fc28

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

GDPR 101: Monitoring & Maintaining Compliance After the Deadline

Discussions about the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR reached a crescendo on May 25, the compliance deadline, but many companies continue seeking guidance. The reason: A majority of companies missed the deadline, according to estimates from various sources, including Gartner, Crowd...

How Live Query Will Change The Way You Do Vulnerability Management

It’s no secret that, without the right set of tools, vulnerability management can be tedious and exhausting. With slow, manual processes it can take weeks to identify and remediate issues. And the work itself is often dull, sifting and searching without yielding real results. Live Query...

IBM OpenPages GRC Platform Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-17416)

IBM OpenPages GRC Platform is a suite of platforms for managing enterprise risk and compliance from IBM in the United States. The platform provides a set of core services and functional components that cover the risk and compliance domain including operational risk, policy and compliance, financi...

Securing Container Deployments with Qualys

With container adoption booming, security teams must protect the applications that DevOps teams create and deploy using this method of OS virtualization. The security must be comprehensive across the entire container lifecycle, and built into the DevOps pipeline in a way that is seamless and...

Open Source Host & Endpoint Security: Wazuh

Wazuh is a security detection, visibility, and compliance open source project. It was born as a fork of OSSEC HIDS, later was integrated with Elastic Stack and OpenSCAP evolving into a more comprehensive solution. Wazuh helps you to gain deeper security visibility into your infrastructure by...

How New Passive Network Sensor Boosts Platform Capabilities

Black Hat attendees got a peek at Qualys Passive Network Sensor PNS, a product that amplifies the already comprehensive IT asset visibility Qualys provides to its customers. By adding real-time network analysis to Qualys’ versatile set of sensors, PNS eliminates blind spots across IT environments...

Lynis 2.6.8 - Security Auditing Tool for Unix/Linux Systems

We are excited to announce this major release of auditing tool Lynis. Several big changes have been made to core functions of Lynis. These changes are the next of simplification improvements we made. There is a risk of breaking your existing configuration. Lynis is an open source security auditin...