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

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

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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...

Qualys Cloud Platform 10.1.0 New Features

The upcoming release of the Qualys Cloud Platform VM, PC, version 10.1.0, includes several new features and enhancements in Qualys Cloud Platform and Qualys Policy Compliance. This release will also add support for new technologies in Qualys Policy Compliance for OCA. 10.1.0 is scheduled to go li...

Policy Compliance Library Updates, April 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...

New Features in Qualys Vulnerability Management and Policy Compliance

Today we are excited to announce several new features, workflows, and new technology support in Qualys Vulnerability Management and Policy Compliance. These new features will be deployed as a part of QWEB 10.0 and Portal 3.0 release versions. Vulnerability Management Launch and Schedule scans...

Qualys Cloud Platform 3.0 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 3.0 includes updates and new features for Vulnerability Management, highlights as follows. Vulnerability Management The following features apply to all subscriptions that are currently using the Vulnerability Management Dashboard beta. With this...

Secure ElasticSearch, Kafka & Other Microservices with Qualys Cloud Platform

In this era of Digital Transformation, microservices are rapidly gaining popularity within continuously deployed systems. Organizations have moved away from the rigid monolithic architectures to more flexible ones that are based on microservices. Lots of organizations handling large amounts of...

Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Windows Adobe Type Manager Library Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (ADV200006) using Qualys VMDR®

On March 23, Microsoft released zero day advisory ADV200006 to address two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in Adobe Type Manager Library that affects multiple versions of Windows and Windows Server. The vulnerabilities exist within the way that Windows parses OpenType fonts. For...

How to Install the Qualys Cloud Agent for Remote Workforce

The Qualys Cloud Agent can be automatically deployed using any third-party software deployment tools including Microsoft SCCM, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft GPO, HCL BigFix, Dell KACE, and others. For remote or roaming users, deploying packages using software deployment tools requires that the targ...

Microsoft Released Out-of-Band Advisory – Windows Adobe Type Manager Library Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (ADV200006)

Today, Microsoft released an out-of-band security advisory ADV200006 to address two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in Adobe Type Manager Library. Microsoft is also aware of limited, targeted attacks that attempt to leverage this vulnerability. The Vulnerability Microsoft Windows...

Qualys Cloud Platform: Continuity of Service in Response to COVID-19

I would like to share Qualys' response to the heightening coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak and outline the steps we are taking to ensure continuity of service for our customers and also ensure the health and well-being of our employees. Qualys has a comprehensive business continuity and emergency...

Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Microsoft SMBv3 RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2020-0796) using Qualys VMDR

This month’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft disclosed a critical “wormable” remote code execution RCE vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Block 3.1.1 SMBv3 protocol. The exploitation of this vulnerability opens systems up to a 'wormable' attack, which means it would be easy to move from victim to...

Automated and Scalable Audit Workflows with Qualys Security Assessment Questionnaire

Risk and compliance management is a multi-faceted domain with concentrated endeavors towards reducing unacceptable risk potential that could disrupt business, or otherwise negatively impact business performance. IT GRC Governance, Risk and Compliance comprises many tasks related to business and I...

Microsoft Windows SMBv3 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-0796)

This month's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft disclosed a remote code execution vulnerability in SMB 3.1.1 v3 protocol. Even though initial release of the Patch Tuesday did not mention this vulnerability, details of the issue CVE-2020-0796 were published accidentally on another security vendor’s blog...