Discovering Design Principles

Carbon Black recently published a report on the challenges of securing Linux-based operating systems and how Carbon Black is redesigning the approach. For more information about how the CB Predictive Security Cloud, Carbon Black's consolidated endpoint security platform, helps enterprises cut cos...

Imperva Integration With AWS Security Hub: Expanding Customer Security Visibility

This article explains how Imperva application security integrates with AWS Security Hub to give customers better visibility and feedback on the security status of their AWS hosted applications. Securing AWS Applications Cost reduction, simplified operations, and other benefits are driving...

More on Threat Hunting

Earlier this week hellor00t asked via Twitter: Where would you place your security researchers/hunt team? I replied: For me, "hunt" is just a form of detection. I don't see the need to build a "hunt" team. IR teams detect intruders using two major modes: matching and hunting. Junior people spend...

US Postal Service Left 60 Million Users Data Exposed For Over a Year

The United States Postal Service has patched a critical security vulnerability that exposed the data of more than 60 million customers to anyone who has an account at the USPS.com website. The U.S.P.S. is an independent agency of the American federal government responsible for providing postal...

QSC18 Takeaway: Complex Environments Demand Visibility and Real-Time Security

If there were two important takeaways from this year's Qualys Security Conference year they would be how today’s complex hybrid environments are demanding security teams find ways to increase visibility into the state of their security posture and be able to quickly mitigate new risks as they...

U.S. Mid-term Elections and Akamai Enterprise Threat Protector

The last few years have witnessed seismic changes in the world's political landscape and the way elections have been conducted. As of yet, there's no conclusive evidence that the results and outcomes of a country's election process have been impacted by the cyber efforts of internal or foreign...

QSC18: The Need for Security Visibility in the Age of Digital Transformation

Enterprises are moving full steam ahead when it comes to their digital transformation efforts. They’ve aggressively adopted cloud infrastructure and other cloud services, IoT, application containers, serverless functionality, and other technologies that are helping their organization to drive...

Cynet Review: Simplify Security with a True Security Platform

In 1999, Bruce Schneier wrote, "Complexity is the worst enemy of security." That was 19 years ago ! and since then, cyber security has only become more complex. Today, controls dramatically outnumber staff available to support them. The Bank of America has a $400-million cyber budget to hire...

Cynet Review: Simplify Security with a True Security Platform

In 1999, Bruce Schneier wrote, "Complexity is the worst enemy of security." That was 19 years ago ! and since then, cyber security has only become more complex. Today, controls dramatically outnumber staff available to support them. The Bank of America has a $400-million cyber budget to hire...

Nextcloud: Event privacy level does not work in Thunderbird

Events in shared calendar with changed privacy level to any other than public are shown in Thunderbird as public anyway with all details How to reproduce: 1 - create an event in user A's calendar shared to user B 2 - change privacy setting of this event to any other than public 3 - open Thunderbi...

Welcome to Qualys Security Conference 2018

The rise of cloud computing coupled with DevOps is forcing enterprises to rewrite their cybersecurity playbook, and part of that book will be written this week at Qualys Security Conference 2018 in Las Vegas. Today, the dual cloud and DevOps mega-trends are helping companies to digitally transfor...

Four Ways Layered Security Will Improve Your Detection and Response

It’s widely understood by cybersecurity professionals today that it’s no longer a case of if your organization gets attacked online but when. Trend Micro blocked more than 20.4 billion threats in the first half of 2018 alone, and the ready availability of “as-a-service” toolkits will continue to...

Drupal 8.2.x < 8.2.0-rc2 Multiple Vulnerabilities

According to its self-reported version number, the detected Drupal application is affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A flaw exists that is due to the program allowing users who have rights to edit a node to set the visibility for comments on that node. This may allow an authenticated remote...

Drupal 8.x < 8.1.10 Multiple Vulnerabilities

According to its self-reported version number, the detected Drupal application is affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A flaw exists that is due to the program allowing users who have rights to edit a node to set the visibility for comments on that node. This may allow an authenticated remote...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : SSL forward proxy vulnerability (K64552448)

Under certain conditions on F5 BIG-IP 13.1.0-13.1.0.5, 13.0.0, 12.1.0-12.1.3.1, 11.6.0-11.6.3.1, or 11.5.0-11.5.6, TMM may core while processing SSL forward proxy traffic. CVE-2018-5534 Impact This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to cause the Traffic Management Microkernel TMM to produc...

5 (Not So) Scary Infosec Questions to Answer this Halloween

It’s Halloween. Time for candy checking, cavities and the start of the retail season. And while attacks will rise around the holidays, don't let the FUD machine get you too scared about things the go bump in the infosec night. Here are five things that should actually concern you. They were easil...

Restricted Work Log entries show in the Activity Stream in JIRA Server

This is a regression of bug JRASERVER-34022: Restricted Work Log entries show in the Activity Stream in JIRA Server fixed in JIRA Server including JIRA Core 7.3.8|https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-34022. Apparently this is a regression and users that are not meant to see the worklogs ca...

Partner Perspectives: The Power of Shared Intelligence: Juniper Sky ATP and Cb Response

Scott Emo is the Director of Field Readiness, Security, for Juniper Networks. Uncover and Mitigate the Most Sophisticated Cyber Attacks The rapid growth of emerging technologies, combined with an increasing number of connected devices running business-critical applications in highly distributed...

Partner Perspectives: Orchestrating Endpoint Security with CyberSponse and Carbon Black

Amit Jain is the Principal Technical Product Manager at CyberSponse. Today's network security infrastructures are complex beasts. Increasing mobile and cloud deployments have made managing endpoint security more challenging than ever before. The dynamic and ever-evolving nature of today’s...

When Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) is not enough

As cybercriminals continue to validate the reality that no prevention-based security control is going to stop every threat every time, companies are expanding beyond prevention-only approaches and closing the gap with endpoint detection and response solutions. But as we consider this strategy, on...