Meow Attack: A Reminder for Organizations to Identify and Secure Their Databases

Thousands of unsecured internet-facing databases have fallen prey to the “Meow” attack and have been permanently destroyed. Meow attacks replace the original index with a newly created one with the suffix “-meow”. With no ransomware demands or any other explanatory note, the attackers seem to hav...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : F5 SSH server key size vulnerability (K43404629)

The version of F5 Networks BIG-IP installed on the remote host is prior to 12.1.5.2 / 13.1.3.6 / 14.1.2.4 / 15.0.1.4 / 15.1.0.5 / 16.0.0. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the K43404629 advisory. The BIG-IP and BIG-IQ host OpenSSH servers use keys less than 2048 bits...

Automated Discovery and Assessment of PaaS Databases with Lambda Service for Qualys Policy Compliance

In the last several years, Platform as a Service PaaS solutions have evolved and matured. As organizations have focused on digital transformation, there has been a major shift towards adopting PaaS solutions driven by benefits including scalability, agility, faster deployment, and cost-effective...

Continuous Monitoring and Beyond

As security professionals, we struggle with the high volume of data we need to sort through while trying to parse out the critical alerts that are important for us to take immediate action upon. Being at the forefront of innovation for the past 20 years, Qualys offers 20 plus solutions which all...

Join us at Black Hat USA 2020!

Qualys is excited to present two sponsored sessions at the Black Hat USA 2020 virtual event, open to all attendees with the free Business Hall pass. Register or log in to Black Hat USA 2020, and then view and register for these free sessions. Join us to learn about our new multi-vector EDR soluti...

GRUB2 Boothole Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CVE-2020-10713) – Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Using Qualys VMDR®

On July 29, 2020, Eclypsium researchers disclosed a high-risk vulnerability in GRUB2 GRand Unified Bootloader version 2 affecting billions of Linux and Windows systems, even when secure boot is enabled. CVE-2020-10713 is assigned to this buffer overflow vulnerability, termed as “Boothole”...

Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Windows DNS Vulnerability (SigRed – CVE-2020-1350) Using Qualys VMDR®

On July 14, 2020, Microsoft issued a new security advisory on Microsoft Windows Patch Day – addressing CVE-2020-1350, also known as SigRed – a remote code execution vulnerability in Windows Domain Name System DNS servers. The security issue has received a critical severity rating score of 10.0...

F5 BIG-IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-5902)

Update July 10, 2020: F5 updated their mitigation section of security advisory on July 8, 2020 at 17:00 Pacific time, and provided a new mitigation mechanism to help customers mitigate currently known unauthenticated exploits. Qualys also updated QID 38791 to reflect these changes and are availab...

Ripple20: Multiple Vulnerabilities Identified in Treck TCP/IP Stack

Multiple vulnerabilities that use a low-level TCP/IP software library developed by Treck, Inc. were identified recently in implementations of the Treck IP stack for embedded systems. These vulnerabilities were discovered by the JSOF research lab and have been named Ripple20. Ripple20...

Product, API & Library Notifications Move to Notifications.qualys.com

Qualys has consolidated notifications of new product features, API changes, and policy library updates at Qualys Notifications to make it easier for our customers to track these changes in one place. Now you will find important notifications such as the latest new Qualys Cloud Platform app...

NSA Announces Sandworm Actors Exploiting Exim MTA Vulnerability (CVE-2019-10149)

The Exim MTA vulnerability, initially reported by Qualys in May 2019, is currently being exploited in the wild. Recently, the US National Security Agency NSA announced that Sandworm actors Russian hacker group have been actively exploiting the Exim Mail Transfer Agent vulnerability. Qualys releas...

The European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2020 – Meet the Finalists

Qualys is sponsoring the EU Cybersecurity Blogger Awards for 2020, representing a ‘who’s who’ of people that write and share their opinions around the security sector. Ahead of the winners being announced on the 2nd of June, we thought we’d ask some questions around what is taking place in securi...

Qualys Adds Cloud Agent Linux Support for AWS ARM-Based EC2 Instances

Releasing this week May 26, 2020, Qualys adds Cloud Agent Linux support for Amazon Web Services EC2 instances powered by ARM processors including the new Graviton2 processor. AWS Graviton2 processors power Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances that provide up to 40% better price performance over...

Debian DSA-4692-1 : netqmail - security update

Georgi Guninski and the Qualys Research Labs discovered multiple vulnerabilities in qmail shipped in Debian as netqmail with additional patches which could result in the execution of arbitrary code, bypass of mail address verification and a local information leak whether a file exists or not. C...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4692-1] netqmail security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4692-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso May 24, 2020 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4692-1] netqmail security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4692-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso May 24, 2020 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2020

One of the most respected publications in cybersecurity is the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR, analyzing over 150,000 incidents and providing a comprehensive analysis covering the 32,002 incidents and 3950 breaches that meet Verizon's quality standards. I liked very much how they...

Policy Compliance Library Updates, May 2020

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...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday May 2020: comments from VM vendors, promising stuff for phishing, troubles with SharePoint and lulz with Visual Studio

This will be my third Microsoft Patch Tuesday report in video and audio format. And for the third time in a row, Microsoft has addressed over a hundred vulnerabilities. With my Microsoft Patch Tuesday parser, it was possible to generate a report almost on the same day. But, of course, it takes mu...

Qualys Community Migration to Salesforce Platform

Update June 9: The Qualys Community discussion forums upgrade is complete. Please visit the new discussions at . If you have an existing Qualys Community account login to https://discussions.qualys.com/, you have received a password reset email because a password reset is required for access to...