Countdown to Black Hat: Top 10 Sessions to Attend — #9 and #10

With Black Hat USA 2019 now in progress, we wrap up this blog series with our final two session recommendations: Attacking and Defending the Microsoft Cloud and Practical Approach to Automate the Discovery and Eradication of Open-Source Software Vulnerabilities at Scale. Attacking and Defending t...

Save the Date: 2019 CISA Cybersecurity Summit

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA will be hosting the 2019 CISA Cybersecurity Summit from September 18-20, 2019, at National Harbor, MD. This summit will provide a forum for critical infrastructure stakeholders to discuss current cybersecurity topics, including emerging...

VulnWhisperer - Create Actionable Data From Your Vulnerability Scans

Createactionable data from your vulnerability scans VulnWhisperer is a vulnerability management tool and report aggregator. VulnWhisperer will pull all the reports from the different Vulnerability scanners and create a file with a unique filename for each one, using that data later to sync with...

Kaspersky Security Center 11 API: getting information about hosts and installed products

I spent a lot of time last week working with the new API of Kaspersky Security Center 11. KSC is the administration console for Kaspersky Endpoint Protection products. And it has some pretty interesting features besides the antivirus/antimalware, for example, vulnerability and patch management. S...

Oracle Solaris vulnerable to arbitrary code execution via /proc/self

Overview Oracle Solaris 11 and Solaris 10 are vulnerable to arbitrary code execution if an attacker has read/write access to /proc/self in the process file system. Description The process file system /proc in Oracle Solaris 11 and Solaris 10 provides a self/ alias that refers to the current...

Microsoft’s Threat & Vulnerability Management now helps thousands of customers to discover, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities in real time

I'm excited to announce that Microsoft’s Threat & Vulnerability Management solution is generally available as of June 30! We have been working closely with customers for more than a year to incorporate their real needs and feedback to better address vulnerability management. Our goal is to empowe...

Video Training Update, July 2019

The Qualys Training team released a major update to the Vulnerability Management Certified Training Course. We’ve also built out two new video libraries showing how to assess business process risk and how to secure cloud infrastructures in DevSecOps environments using AWS Golden AMI pipelines. An...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.39 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.39 includes updates and new features for Out-of-Band Configuration Assessment OCA, Vulnerability Management, and Web Application Scanning, highlights as follows. Vulnerability Management Trending uses Include/Exclude Filters in Dashboard – Widge...

BD Alaris Gateway Workstation

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 10.0 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit Vendor: BD Becton, Dickinson and Company Equipment: Alaris Gateway Workstation Vulnerabilities: Improper Access Control, Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type 2. RISK EVALUATION Exploitation of...

Faraday v3.8 - Collaborative Penetration Test and Vulnerability Management Platform

Here are the main new features and improvements in Faraday v3.8: Set up Faraday with a double click! We are committed to facilitate your work processes. With that in mind, we enhanced our installation phases, so now it’s easier to have Faraday on your devices: You can download our platform with...

Microsoft Warns of Email Attacks Executing Code Using an Old Bug

Microsoft is warning of a fresh email campaign that distributes malicious RTF files boobytrapped with an exploit dating back to a 2017 vulnerability, CVE-2017-11882. The exploit allows attackers to automatically run malicious code without requiring user interaction. “The CVE-2017-11882...

Integrating Threat and Vulnerability Management with Patch Management: The (Feasible) Quantum Leap

The rise of sophisticated attacks combined with the security-skills shortage have driven many organizations to go back to basics and review their processes for vulnerability and patch management. The approach is definitely a winning one, given that shrinking and managing the vulnerability surface...

PHDays 9: new methods of Vulnerability Prioritization in Vulnerability Management products

On May 21, I spoke at the PHDays 9 conference. I talked about new methods of Vulnerability Prioritization in the products of Vulnerability Management vendors. During my 15 minutes time slot I defined the problems that this new technology has to solve, showed why these problems could NOT be solved...

Boost Security with These Gartner-Recommended Projects

Is your security team struggling to decide which projects will slash risk the most without breaking the bank? If so, we believe your security leaders can end analysis paralysis by perusing Gartner’s “Top 10 Security Projects for 2019” report. As its title states, the report recommends ten securit...

Step 9. Protect your OS: top 10 actions to secure your environment

In “Step 9. Protect your OS” of the Top 10 actions to secure your environment blog series, we provide resources to help you configure Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection Microsoft Defender ATP to defend your Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android devices from advanced threats. In an...

Using Threat Modeling in Cybersecurity to Hunt and Remediate

Modern-day cyberattacks keep growing in sophistication and sheer volume. This dynamic makes it virtually impossible to detect and block all attacks using the traditional methods of comparing incoming requests to known attack signatures. To effectively operate in this new aggressive cyberthreat...

Acunetix Vulnerability Scanner Now With Network Security Scans

User-friendly and competitively priced, Acunetix leads the market in automatic web security testing technology. Its industry-leading crawler fully supports HTML5, JavaScript, and AJAX-heavy websites, enabling the auditing of complex, authenticated applications. Acunetix provides the only technolo...

Windows RDP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (BlueKeep) – How to Detect and Patch

This month's Microsoft Patch Tuesday included a very high-risk vulnerability CVE-2019-0708, aka BlueKeep in Remote Desktop that impacts Windows XP, Windows 7, Server 2003, Server 2008, and Server 2008 R2. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker or malware to execute code on the...

Verizon’s DBIR Highlights Key Drivers of Security Risk

It’s that time of the year when Verizon updates us on the latest trends in the global threat landscape with its Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR. The findings in this year’s report are based on data provided by more than 70 sources including Qualys about more than 41,000 security incidents,...

New CB LiveOps Release Brings Recommended Queries to Users

Security & IT teams often have no reliable way to check on the current status of their endpoints across their enterprise. This forces these teams to piece together information from multiple management consoles in order to get answers about the health of their entire fleet. Even when they do have...