Qualys Cloud Platform 2.27 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.27 includes updates and new features for Cloud Agent and AssetView as follows: Highlights Platform / Cloud Agent API Host Asset Management API – updated to query on and return additional Cloud Agent attributes. The new attribute fields are not...

Visualizing the Stack Clash Vulnerability with Dashboards

Security teams should apply vendor patches immediately to protect their Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and Solaris infrastructure from The Stack Clash vulnerability also see the security advisory. To help in that effort, this blog post describes a new built-in Qualys AssetView dashboard to...

Intel AMT Vulnerability

Last week, Intel published a security advisory INTEL-SA-00075 regarding a new vulnerability in Intel Active Management Technology AMT, Intel Standard Manageability ISM, and Intel Small Business Technology SBT. The firmware versions impacted are 6.x, 7.x, 8.x 9.x, 10.x, 11.0, 11.5, and 11.6. In...

The Shadow Brokers Release Zero Day Exploit Tools

On Friday, a hacker group known as The Shadow Brokers publicly released a large number of functional exploit tools. Several of these tools make use of zero-day vulnerabilities, most of which are in Microsoft Windows. Exploiting these vulnerabilities in many cases leads to remote code execution an...