Ancient CVEs Can Cause You Problems

Ancient CVEs Can Cause You Problems By Kent Landfield · September 23, 2022 The Common Vulnerability and Exposures CVE Program was founded in 1999 for the purpose of giving individual cyber vulnerabilities an identifier that could be used as an interoperable means for identifying a specific...

6 patch management best practices for businesses

Patching is a thorn in the side of many businesses today: Everything from keeping up with the volume of patches to prioritizing what needs to be patched first can cause major delays in a business's patching process. Needless to say, businesses are looking to streamline their patch management...

The current cybersecurity challenge: All the threat data in the world, but no idea how to leverage it

Milpitas, California, August 05, 2022 -- Organizations today are facing a deluge of automated cybersecurity threats that are increasing exponentially every day, not only in velocity but in variety and complexity. This makes it virtually impossible for organizations to address every vulnerability...

Design/Logic Flaw

The YOP Poll WordPress plugin before 6.4.3 prioritizes getting a visitor's IP from certain HTTP headers over PHP's REMOTEADDR, which makes it possible to bypass IP-based limitations to vote in certain situations...

Wiz CDR and Amazon GuardDuty: Contextualize and prioritize threat detection

Wiz leverages its leading Cloud Security Graph to help Cloud Defenders quickly understand, with the click of a button— what happened, where it happened, and how to respond...

Aflac Reduces Critical Vulnerabilities by 55% with Qualys VMDR 2.0 with TruRisk

The following is a guest blog by Aflac, a Qualys VMDR customer, on their recent experience completing a Proof of Concept project for the newly release VMDR 2.0 with Qualys TruRisk. About Aflac Aflac Inc. NYSE: AFL is an insurance leader and the largest provider of supplemental insurance in the...

4 Strategies for Achieving Greater Visibility in the Cloud

The cloud giveth, and the cloud taketh away. It giveth development teams the speed and scale to get applications into production and deployment faster than ever; it taketh away security teams' comfort that they know exactly what's going on in their environment. Much has been said about the...

Mind the Gap – How to Ensure Your Vulnerability Detection Methods are up to Scratch — The Hacker News

With global cybercrime costs expected to reach $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, it comes as little surprise that the risk of attack is companies' biggest concern globally. To help businesses uncover and fix the vulnerabilities and misconfigurations affecting their systems, there is an overabundan...

riscv-isa-sim 安全漏洞

riscv-isa-sim is a RISC-V ISA simulator. A security vulnerability exists in riscv-isa-sim that stems from an incorrect implementation of exception prioritization when accessing memory...

How to Quickly Prioritize Risks with VMDR 2.0 and Orchestrate Response with CMDB & ITSM Integration

A single source of truth for asset inventory enables Cybersecurity and IT teams to optimally automate risk prioritization and response. Qualys VMDR 2.0 with TruRiskTM leverages Qualys CSAM to automate the Asset Criticality Score, a key parameter of risk scoring. This blog explains how with insigh...

Application Security in 2022: Where Are We Now?

It’s always a good thing to take a step back every once in a while to take the lay of the land. Like you, we are always working at a breakneck pace to help secure the web applications being built today and ready ourselves to secure the innovations of the future. When Forrester put out The State o...

Risk-based Remediation Powered by Patch Management in Qualys VMDR 2.0

According to the recently released Verizon DBIR report, vulnerability exploitation continued to be one of the top three attack vectors exploited by bad actors in 2021 to break into organizations. As of this writing, it’s only June, but more than 10,000 vulnerabilities have already been disclosed ...

Vulristics May 2022 Update: CVSS redefinitions and bulk adding Microsoft products from MS CVE data

Hello everyone! In this episode, I want to talk about the latest updates to my open source vulnerability prioritization project Vulristics. Alternative video link for Russia: CVSS redefinitions A fairly common problem: we have a CVE without an available CVSS vector and score. For example, this wa...

Sandstone CTO shares how to assess cyber risk in the cloud

Chaitanya Pinnamanemi discusses how visibility and prioritization are key to securing your digital attack surface and reducing cyber risk...

Which Hole to Plug First? Solving Chronic Vulnerability Patching Overload

According to folklore, witches were able to sail in a sieve, a strainer with holes in the bottom. Unfortunately, witches don't work in cybersecurity – where networks generally have so many vulnerabilities that they resemble sieves. For most of us, keeping the sieve of our networks afloat requires...

What's New in InsightVM and Nexpose: Q1 2022 in Review

The world of cybersecurity never has a dull moment. While we are still recovering from the aftermath of Log4Shell, the recent ContiLeaks exposed multiple vulnerabilities that have been exploited by the Conti ransomware group. It’s critical for your team to identify the risk posed by such...

3 Ways InsightIDR Users Are Achieving XDR Outcomes

The buzz around extended detection and response XDR is often framed in the future tense — here's what it will be like when we can start bringing more sources of telemetry into our detections, or what will happen when we can use XDR to really start reducing false positives. But users of InsightIDR...

Unpromising Vulnerability Prioritization with Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

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Review your security vulnerabilities in GitHub with code scanning alerts

Today, for GitHub repositories, our SAST analysis provides fast, precise security feedback directly inside your pull requests. You instantly know how many vulnerabilities are detected and, until now, you would systematically go to SonarCloud to start investigating. Not anymore. From this point...

Managing CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities with Qualys VMDR

CISA released a directive in November 2021, recommending urgent and prioritized remediation of actively exploited vulnerabilities. Both government agencies and corporations should heed this advice. This blog outlines how Qualys Vulnerability Management, Detection & Response can be used by any...