NIST Updates Cybersecurity Framework to Tackle Supply Chain Threats, Vulnerability Disclosure and More

Four years after the initial iteration was released, the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST has released version 1.1 of the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. The framework was developed to be a voluntary, risk-based framework to improve cybersecurity...

Microsoft Windows 10: Deny log on as a service

This policy setting determines which users are prevented from logging on to the service applications on a device. A service is an application type that runs in the system background without a user interface. It provides core operating system features, such as web serving, event logging, file...

Microsoft Windows 10: Impersonate a client after authentication

This policy setting determines which programs are allowed to impersonate a user or another specified account and act on behalf of the user. If this user right is required for this type of impersonation, an unauthorized user cannot cause a client to connect for example, by remote procedure call RP...

Microsoft Windows 10: Modify firmware environment values

This security setting determines who can modify firmware environment values. Firmware environment values are settings that are stored in the nonvolatile RAM of non-x86-based computers. The effect of the setting depends on the processor. On all computers, this user right is required to install or...

Microsoft Windows 10: Debug programs

This policy setting determines which users can attach to or open any process, even those they do not own. Developers who are debugging their own applications do not need to be assigned this user right. Developers who are debugging new system components need this user right. This user right provid...

Gaining Control over Your Digital Certificates

Digital certificate management is in an inadequate state at most organizations, a serious problem, considering that SSL/TLS certificates are critical for a host of e-business functions. “If you’re doing something on the Internet, you’re using SSL,” Asif Karel, a Qualys Director of Product...

This Week in Security News: Fines and Funding

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, the SEC paid $35 million in fines following the 2014 breach, in which Russian hackers obtained the information of 500 million users. In...

When Preparing for GDPR, Don’t Neglect Public Cloud Security

With organizations aggressively moving workloads to public cloud platforms, such as Amazon’s AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft’s Azure, protecting these environments is critical for compliance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation GDPR. These public cloud platforms are being used to pow...

Customer data & marketing operations: Keeping your data safe on the journey to GDPR compliance

Emails. Web forms. Events. Oh my! These marketing tactics are all designed to gather, store, and evolve relationships with your prospects, customers, and partners. Often times, they are the first point of contact for your organization from the outside world—and they all feed into your marketing...

Microsoft Windows: Password must meet complexity requirements

This test checks the setting for policy type OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winpasswdcomplexityrequirements.nasl 11532 2018-09-21 19:07:30Z cfischer $ Check value for Password must meet complexity requirements WMI Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Orangeworm Targeting Healthcare Industry since 2015 Now Exposed

Operating since 2015, a threat group dubbed Orangeworm has been newly attributed to hacking and infiltrating healthcare groups around the world. Companies specifically targeted include hospitals, healthcare providers, pharmaceuticals, IT services firms serving the healthcare industry, and more...

PCI Compliance: Early-TLS and Cloud Service Providers

Organizations tracking their PCI compliance are likely aware of the impending June 30, 2018 deadline to disable SSLv3 and early-TLS. This blog post examines the special case of Cloud Service Providers CSPs and how their customers should proceed to achieve compliance...

Carbon Black’s Commitment to GDPR & Keeping Customer Data Safe

At Carbon Black, keeping our customers’ data safe is a top priority. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation “GDPR”, a comprehensive European privacy law that takes effect on May 25, 2018, has shined a light on the importance of securing personal data. The GDPR is designed to...

The Human (Resource) Role in the Journey to GDPR Compliance

Employees are at the center of dealing with the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR, which is the new European regulation that aims to strengthen and standardize the data pricy rights of European citizens. As we’ve discussed throughout this blog series, the GDPR impacts many organizations...

Carbon Black’s Predictive Security Cloud (PSC) To Help Power Newly Launched IBM X-Force Threat Management Services

Today is another exciting day for Carbon Black and IBM! This morning we announced Carbon Black has expanded its relationship with IBM Security as the Cb Predictive Security Cloud PSC™ will be part of the newly launched IBM X-Force Threat Management Services to further combat advanced threats acro...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: firefox-59.0.2-1.fc28

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

Microsoft Windows: Specify intranet Microsoft update service location

Check Setting OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winusewuserver.nasl 11535 2018-09-21 19:39:46Z cfischer $ Check value for Specify intranet Microsoft update service location Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free...

Microsoft Windows: Set the intranet statistics server

Check Setting OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winusewustatisticserverpath.nasl 11535 2018-09-21 19:39:46Z cfischer $ Check value for Set the intranet statistics server Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software...

Microsoft Windows: Set the intranet update service for detecting updates

Check Setting OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winusewuserverpath.nasl 11535 2018-09-21 19:39:46Z cfischer $ Check value for Set the intranet update service for detecting updates Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is fre...

Solaris 10 (x86) : 152079-91

JavaSE 6x86: update 191 patch equivalent. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Apr/16/18 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text in this plugin was extracted from the Oracle SunOS Patch Updates. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid109079; scriptversion"1.5";...