Aviation & Logistics: Island Hopping – A Growing Threat

When we think about the industries that have the most to lose from a serious cyber attack, our minds probably immediately go to the Finance, Healthcare, and Energy sectors. And for good reason - as Carbon Black research shows, 78% of IR professionals say they observe attacks on the financial...

The many faces of omnichannel fraud

The rise of new technologies, social networks, and other means of online communication have brought about compelling changes in industries across the board. For example, in retail, organizations use digital tools such as websites, email, and apps to reach out to their current and potential client...

Call for Customer Presentations: Qualys Security Conference 2018

The annual Qualys user conference, QSC18, is quickly approaching, and we are looking for customer presentations showcasing how you use Qualys to enable security best practices and secure your digital transformation. If you would like to be considered as a presenter, please send a session title an...

Security Bulletin: IBM Maximo Asset Management could allow an authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2018-1698)

Summary IBM Maximo Asset Management could allow an authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information from error messages. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-1698 DESCRIPTION: IBM Maximo Asset Management could allow an unauthenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information from error...

Lenovo Replacing Distrusted GeoTrust Certificates With New DigiCert Certificates - US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-24497 Scope of Impact: Industry-wide. Anyone using a GeoTrust certificate will need to update to DigiCert. Major browsers will stop trusting GeoTrust certificates as early as October. Summary Description: Many Lenovo sites use PKI certificates issued by the GeoTrust...

Lenovo Replacing Distrusted GeoTrust Certificates With New DigiCert Certificates - Lenovo Support US

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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...

September 4, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “September” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! September 4, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Carbon Black builds out...

Carbon Black Report: 46% of Incident Response Professionals Experience Counter Incident Response

Quarterly Incident Response Threat Report Executive Summary/Highlights Proactive Incident Response Even as a steady drumbeat of headlines keeps the world’s attention focused on cybercrimes such as ransomware and cryptojacking, in the dark corners of the internet, attackers are busy refining their...

Whole Disk Encryption with Intel Optane Memory Modules - US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-22881 Potential Impact: Information disclosure Severity: Medium Scope of Impact: Industry-wide CVE Identifier: CVE-2018-3619 Summary Description: Intel has identified an issue where configuring an Optane memory module before enabling BitLocker whole disk encryption...

Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) Vulnerabilities - US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-21284 Potential Impact: Elevation of privilege, information disclosure Severity: High Scope of Impact: Industry-wide CVE Identifier: CVE-2017-5736, CVE-2018-3626, CVE-2018-3639, CVE-2018-3640, CVE-2018-3691 Summary Description: Intel has issued several advisories...

Badgelife: A Defcon 26 retrospective

One more year gone, one more Defcon completed. Defcon is the longest-running security conference in existence and one that I have been attending since Defcon 18. It is an opportunity to see and interact in real life with industry peers that would forever remain a digital persona otherwise. It is...

Black Hat USA 2018 Best Practices Videos

Watch the presentations from the Qualys booth at Black Hat USA 2018, available online now. Learn how your peers are securing their environments and see the breadth and depth of Qualys solutions. Industry-Leading Best Practices Qualys customers explain how they run their industry-leading security...

L1 Terminal Fault Side Channel Vulnerabilities - US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-24163 Potential Impact: Malicious code running locally may be able to observe contents of privileged memory, circumventing expected privilege levels Severity: High Scope of Impact: Industry-wide CVE Identifier: CVE-2018-3615, CVE-2018-3620, CVE-2018-3646 Summary...

NVIDIA Graphics Driver Multiple Vulnerabilities (including fixes for Intel Speculative Side Channel Vulnerabilities) - US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-16730 Potential Impact: Denial of service, possible escalation of privilege, exfiltration of privileged memory Severity: High Scope of Impact: Industry-wide CVE Identifier: CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-6266, CVE-2017-6267, CVE-2017-6268, CVE-2017-6269, CVE-2017-6270,...

Fighting the Skills Gap Via Industry Leading Research and Inspiring Events

By Kevin Simzer Among the headline-grabbing reports of election hacking, nation-state raids on utilities firms, and mega-data breaches, few outside the industry ask the question: Did the cybersecurity skills shortage play a part? It’s impossible to say for sure. However, what we do know is that...

Threatlist: Manufacturing, a Top Target for Espionage

When it comes to cyberattack-related reconnaissance and lateral movement activity, the manufacturing industry exhibits higher than normal rates. That’s according to Vectra’s 2018 Spotlight Report on Manufacturing, which crunched data from more than 4 million devices and workloads from customer...

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...

Podcast: Breaking Down the COSCO Ransomware Attack

Last week, shipping giant COSCO China Ocean Shipping Company announced it was hit with a ransomware attack that crippled its U.S. operations. The company’s phone and email for its U.S. branch were down for five days, and have now been restored. Threatpost talks to Matt Tyrer with Commvault about...

Security Bulletin: IBM Maximo Asset Management installs with a default administrator account that a remote intruder could use to gain administrator access to the system.(CVE-2018-1524)

Summary IBM Maximo Asset Management installs with a default administrator account that a remote intruder could use to gain administrator access to the system. This vulnerability is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-4966. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-1524 DESCRIPTION: IBM Maximo Asset...