Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Update

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

Backdoors in D-Link’s backyard

"If you want to change the world, start with yourself." In the case of security research this can be rephrased to: "If you want to make the world safer, start with the smart things in your home." Or, to be more specific, start with your router – the core of any home network as well as an...

cis.tugraz.at XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-603496 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| cis.tugraz.at Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

JShielder - Automates The Process Of Installing All The Necessary Packages To Host A Web Application And Hardening A Linux Server

JSHielder is an Open Source tool developed to help SysAdmin and developers secure there Linux Servers in which they will be deploying any web application or services. This tool automates the process of installing all the necessary packages to host a web application and Hardening a Linux server wi...

UPDATE: Prowler 2.0 Beta

PenTestIT RSS Feed My older post about Prowler was about a good NINE months ago. Since then, a lot has changed and hence, this post is about the recently released update made to the AWS CIS Benchmark tool – Prowler 2.0 Beta! This new beta version has lots of improvements which you shall read abou...

Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Update

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from vendo...

Best practices for securely moving workloads to Microsoft Azure

Azure is Microsofts cloud computing environment. It offers customers three primary service delivery models including infrastructure as a service IaaS, platform as a service PaaS, and software as a service SaaS. Adopting cloud technologies requires a shared responsibility model for security, with...

Center for Internet Security CIS-CAT Pro Dashboard Privilege Gain Vulnerability

Center for Internet Security CIS-CAT Pro Dashboard is a set of panels used to display system compliance on a dashboard. An access control error vulnerability exists in versions of Center for Internet Security CIS-CAT Pro Dashboard prior to 1.0.4. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain...

CVE-2017-8916

In Center for Internet Security CIS-CAT Pro Dashboard before 1.0.4, an authenticated user is able to change an administrative user's e-mail address and send a forgot password email to themselves, thereby gaining administrative access...

CVE-2017-8916

In CIS-CAT Pro Dashboard, prior to version 1.0.4, an authenticated user can change an administrator’s email address and trigger a password-recovery email to themselves, thereby gaining administrative access. This is described in CVE-2017-8916 and corroborated by CNVD/CNVD-2018-05227 and other sou...

Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Update

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from vendo...

Implementing the CIS 20 Critical Security Controls: Make Your InfoSec Foundation Rock Solid

For almost 10 years, thousands of organizations eager to solidify their security and compliance foundations have found clarity and direction in the the Center for Internet Security’s Critical Security Controls CSCs. This structured set of 20 foundational InfoSec best practices, first published in...

Perspective ICM Investigation & Case 5.1.1.16 - Privilege Escalation

Exploit Title: Privilege Escalation - Perspective ICM Investigation & Case - 5.1.1.16 Date Reported to vendor: Jun 28, 2017 Date Accepted by vendor: Jun 11, 2017 Exploit Author: [email protected] Vendor Homepage: www.resolver.com Version: Perspective ICM Investigation & Case -...

Implementing the CIS 20 Critical Security Controls: Delving into More Sophisticated Techniques

Corden Pharma needed a standardized security program to meet customer requirements. Link3 Technologies wanted to prioritize its network security improvements. Telenet was looking for a road map to implement its ISO-27000 compliance program. These three companies — a German pharmaceutical contract...

Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Update

The Qualys library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from...

Implementing the CIS 20 Critical Security Controls: Building Upon Foundational Cyber Hygiene

Most successful cyber attacks exploit known vulnerabilities for which patches are available, or take advantage of weak configuration settings that could have been easily hardened. You can significantly lower the risk of being victimized by this type of common, preventable attack by adopting the...

Implementing the CIS 20 Critical Security Controls: Slash Risk of Cyber Attacks by 85%

If a CISO needed to cut cyber attack risk by 85%, how would this security chief go about accomplishing that? Would the CISO even know where to begin? It’s safe to say that such a mandate would be considered daunting, and maybe even overwhelming. CISOs are scrambling to protect IT infrastructures...

Webcast Q&A: Automating the CIS Critical Security Controls

Qualys Product Management Director Tim White and SANS Institute Analyst John Pescatore did a deep dive into the Center for Internet Security’s Critical Security Controls during a recent webcast, and answered questions from audience members about these 20 foundational security practices, and about...

Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Update

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from vendo...

Achieve Continuous Security and Compliance with the CIS Critical Security Controls

For InfoSec pros, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the constant noise from cybersecurity industry players — vendors, research firms, consultants, industry groups, government regulators and media outlets. A good antidote for this hyperactive chatter is to refocus on foundational InfoSec practices...