Cybersecurity at a Crossroads: New Implications on Business Risk

During our 2023 Qualys Security Conference QSC taking place in Orlando, Florida, November 6-9, 2023, I unveiled an exciting new milestone for the company – the release of our new Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform, marking a seismic shift for the future of Qualys as a leader in managing and...

How Attack Surface Management Supports Continuous Threat Exposure Management

According to Forrester, External Attack Surface Management EASM emerged as a market category in 2021 and gained popularity in 2022. In a different report, Gartner concluded that vulnerability management vendors are expanding their offerings to include Attack Surface Management ASM for a suite of...

PT-2022-26036

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Relatedcode's Messenger version 7bcd20b Description The issue allows an authenticated external attacker to access sensitive data of any user of the application. This is possible because the application exposes user data to the public...

CISA BOD 23-01: Meeting and Exceeding CISA Requirements with Qualys

The latest Binding Operational Directive from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA BOD 23-01 requires agencies to implement an essential cybersecurity practice within the next 6 months. While this new mandate impacts agencies directly, it also impacts their supply chain...

External attack surface and ongoing cybercriminal activity in APAC region

To prevent a cyberattack, it is vital to know what the attack surface for your organization is. To be prepared to repel the attacks of cybercriminals, businesses around the world collect threat intelligence themselves or subscribe for threat intelligence services. Continuous threat research enabl...

Introducing CyberSecurity Asset Management 2.0 with Natively Integrated External Attack Surface Management

Qualys is introducing Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management 2.0, which now delivers natively integrated External Attack Surface Management EASM to enable Cybersecurity teams to identify any and all assets visible on the internet, including previously unknown assets and any potential security...

What Are Shadow IDs, and How Are They Crucial in 2022?

Just before last Christmas, in a first-of-a-kind case, JPMorgan was fined $200M for employees using non-sanctioned applications for communicating about financial strategy. No mention of insider trading, naked shorting, or any malevolence. Just employees circumventing regulation using, well, Shado...

Apache Any23 XXE

The vulnerability of the extractor.rdfa.XSLTStylesheet object class in the XSLTStylesheet class of the Apache Any23 library is related to an incorrect restriction on XML references to external objects. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to perform XXE attacks...

Qualys Integrates with Shodan to Help Map the External Attack Surface

Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management CSAM now natively integrates with Shodan to enable cybersecurity teams to identify all assets visible on the internet, including previously unknown and potential security issues… before attackers find them. Your attack surface is dynamic. Assets come and go,...

A New Security Paradigm: External Attack Surface Management

Ran Nahmias, Co-founder and CBO, Cyberpion In the past, a web application or online service could be taken at face value by your customers and employees. It was created, developed, and secured by your organization, and every element of the IT infrastructure that supported that service was under...

CVE-2020-35233: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The TFTP server fails to handle multiple connections on NETGEAR JGS516PE/GS116Ev2 v2.6.0.43 devices, and allows external attackers to force device reboots by sending concurrent connections, aka a denial of service attack...

Top 5 Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Predictions for 2020

We distilled 30 independent reports dedicated to cybersecurity and cybercrime predictions for 2020 and compiled the top 5 most interesting findings and projections in this post. Compliance fatigue will spread among security professionals Being a source of ongoing controversy and debate, the...

Anonymous Attacker Package by Maxpain

Anonymous Attacker Package by Maxpain "Maxpain" Hacker and Security Developer, Releases two tools in an Package called "Anonymous Attacker Package". First one is - Anonymous external attack, allows you to execute udp flood web attack, into websites, this tool was made as external of LOIC, the...

The latest hacking techniques: the XSS cross-site scripting attack detailed description-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

General description A simple description of what isXSSattack How to findXSSvulnerability ForXSSattack the General idea From internal attacks: How to find the internalXSSvulnerability How to construct attack How to use The junction of any instances of attacks, such as DVBBS&BBSXP From external...

CAN-2004-0814: Linux terminal layer races

Linux 2.6.9 fixes a set of race conditions in the Linux terminal subsystem which are believed to go back to 2.2 kernels if not earlier. The race shows up problematically in two places. Firstly a user can cause crashes and other undefined behaviour by issuing a TIOCSETLD ioctl on a terminal...