Qualys Cloud Platform (VM, PC) 8.17 New Features

Qualys Cloud Platform VM, PC version 8.17 contains various feature enhancements in Qualys Vulnerability Management and Qualys Policy Compliance. In addition, this release also lowers the time required before pausing or canceling an ongoing scan. Previously, scheduled scans could be cancelled or...

Qualys Cloud Platform (VM, PC) 8.16 New Features

This new release of the Qualys Cloud Platform VM, PC, version 8.16, contains several new improvements in Qualys Vulnerability Management and Qualys Policy Compliance, which includes new password security option, increased limit for virtual hosts that can be added to a subscription, added support...

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...

Linux 3 a serious vulnerability systemd, may lead to data breaches-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Recently, security researchers announced a Linux system systemd in three serious vulnerabilities, namely CVE-2018-16864, CVE-2018-16865, and CVE-2018-16866。 Attackers exploiting these vulnerabilities may obtain a target machine's root access, and even may lead to information disclosure. Systemd...

CentOS Update for libgudev1-219-62.el7_ CESA-2019:0049 centos7

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4367-1] systemd security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4367-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso January 13, 2019 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4367-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

systemd-journald Memory Corruption / Information Leak Vulnerability

This is a thorough analysis of how Qualys approached exploiting three vulnerabilities in systemd-journald. Although they have not released formal exploits yet, they detail in here is useful in understanding the flaws. Qualys Security Advisory System Down: A systemd-journald exploit...

Detecting Insecure Cookies with Qualys Web Application Scanning

Cookies are ubiquitous in today's modern web applications. If an attacker can acquire a user's session cookie by exploiting a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability, by sniffing an unencrypted HTTP connection, or by some other means, then they can potentially hijack a user's valid session...

Global IT Asset Inventory: The Foundation for Security and Compliance

Pablo Quiroga, Qualys’ Director of Product Management for IT Asset Management, talks about the new Asset Inventory solution When IT directors and CISOs look at their digitally transformed networks, they encounter many shadows that their legacy enterprise software tools can’t illuminate. These bli...

Capital One: Building Security Into DevOps

Capital One prides itself on staying at the forefront of IT innovations to give its business a competitive edge. For example, it adopted Agile software-development methodologies years ago, and uses artificial intelligence and machine learning. It was the first bank to implement a mobile wallet wi...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

Welcome to Qualys Security Conference 2018

The rise of cloud computing coupled with DevOps is forcing enterprises to rewrite their cybersecurity playbook, and part of that book will be written this week at Qualys Security Conference 2018 in Las Vegas. Today, the dual cloud and DevOps mega-trends are helping companies to digitally transfor...

Don’t Overlook Qualys Malware Detection

Cyber criminals are constantly looking for opportunities to infect legitimate websites with malware. They can use infected websites to cryptomine, steal data, hijack systems, deface pages, and do other damage to harm a company’s reputation and impact their users. This can result in lost revenue,...

Solaris RSH Stack Clash Privilege Escalation Exploit

This Metasploit module exploits a vulnerability in RSH on unpatched Solaris systems which allows users to gain root privileges. The stack guard page on unpatched Solaris systems is of insufficient size to prevent collisions between the stack and heap memory, aka Stack Clash. This Metasploit modul...

Qualys Broadens Security Offerings for Azure

Qualys is expanding its security and compliance capabilities for Microsoft Azure, by adding protection for the on-premises Azure Stack and extending capabilities for public cloud deployments. By using Qualys’ platform to defend hybrid IT environments, organizations get a unified view of their...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2018:2748 centos7

Check the version of kernel SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882956";...

Stronger Security with Global IT Asset Inventory

On a Friday afternoon before a long holiday weekend, a company’s security operations center receives a potentially serious alert: It appears that a domain controller has been tampered with. After examining event logs and overlaying network traffic, a SOC analyst confirms that a suspicious system...

Linux Kernel 2.6.x / 3.10.x / 4.14.x (x64) - Mutagen Astronomy Local Privilege Escalation Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits / EDB-Note: Systems with less than 32GB of RAM are unlikely to be affected by this issue, due to memory demands during exploitation. EDB Note: poc-exploit.c / / poc-exploit.c for CVE-2018-14634 Copyright C 2018 Qualys, Inc. This program is fre...