Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, January 2025 Security Update Review

Happy New Year! As the calendar turns to January 2025, Microsoft's first Patch Tuesday of 2025 has arrived. From zero-days to critical vulnerabilities, here's what deserves your attention. Here's a breakdown of what's been patched. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for January 2025 Microsoft Patch's Tuesda...

LinkedIn Faux Pas Shines Light on Certificate Management

Visibility and control of digital certificates remains a challenge for even the largest enterprises, as evidenced by a high profile incident this week affecting Microsoft’s LinkedIn. Users accessing LinkedIn on Tuesday got a warning from their browsers alerting them about an insecure connection...

Ancestry: On the Vanguard of DevOps Security

Grant Johnson, Ancestry's Director, Risk & Compliance This is a guest post by Grant Johnson, Director, Risk & Compliance at Ancestry Over the past two years, Ancestry moved its entire applications and data infrastructure from local data centers to Amazon’s cloud, and this required a new approach...

QSC18 Virtual Edition: Vulnerability Risk Management

When vulnerability risk management is proactive, organizations don’t have to hurriedly react to attacks that exploit bugs for which patches are available, as happened with WannaCry. “The vast majority of WannaCry remediation took place as an emergency type process,” Jimmy Graham, a Qualys Directo...

The Sub-10-Minute Cloud Takeover: How Exposed IAM Keys, Misconfiguration and AI Are Rewriting the Rules of Cloud Breaches

Key Takeaways Two real-world cloud attacks reached meaningful impact in less than ten minutes despite pursuing entirely different objectives. Both attackers treated the environment as a connected system, using existing permissions and relationships to expand their reach. Reconnaissance increasing...

From Vision to Value: Gartner® Identifies Qualys as 2025 Magic Quadrant™ Leader in Exposure Assessment Platforms

Why Was Qualys Named a Leader in Exposure Assessment Platforms? We're proud to share that Qualys has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Exposure Assessment Platforms. We believe this recognition reflects our forward-thinking vision and the proven value of the Qualys...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, December 2023 Security Update Review

Microsoft has wrapped up the year with fewer security updates released in its Patch Tuesday, December 2023 edition. We invite you to join us to review and discuss the details of these security updates and patches. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for December 2023 In this months Patch Tuesday edition,...

Don’t Spend Your Holiday Season Patching Chrome

As we come back from our Thanksgiving holidays, Google has released yet another security update for the Chrome desktop web browser to address a high-severity vulnerability that exists in the wild. This is the eighth Chrome zero-day fixed this year by Google. This security bug CVE-2022-4135; QID...

Security Advisory: Mitigating the Risk of Microsoft Exchange Zero-Day ProxyLogon Vulnerabilities

Microsoft recently released several security updates for Microsoft Exchange Server to address vulnerabilities that sophisticated nation-state actors are exploiting to exfiltrate critical data from a variety of organizations. Reports suggest attackers have been targeting these vulnerabilities sinc...

Building an Open Cloud Platform

Qualys Chairman and CEO Philippe Courtot kicked off Qualys Security Conference with an assessment of current security challenges and a clear call to action on how to successfully overcome them. “Today security is front and center, and as we move to the cloud, we must rethink security,” Courtot sa...

Recline on the Qualys Couch: Examining Patching Behavior

In a perfect world, organizations would patch vulnerabilities immediately after they’re disclosed, preemptively blocking exploits and dodging most cyber attacks. Of course, reality is far from that hypothetically ideal state. Organizations often leave critical vulnerabilities unpatched for months...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.32 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.32 includes updates and new features for AssetView, EC2 Connector, File Integrity Monitoring, Indication of Compromise, Security Assessment Questionnaire, Web Application Scanning, and Web Application Firewall, highlights as follows. Post update...

The Shift from Securing our Networks to Enabling the Digital Transformation of our Enterprises

It’s not yet Thursday, but attendees at Qualys Security Conference 2017 were treated to a major “throwback” as CEO and Chairman Philippe Courtot journeyed back centuries during QSC17’s opening keynote to illustrate the seismic changes of today’s digital revolution. Courtot cited some of history’s...

How to Secure Public Clouds while Boosting Digital Transformation

It’s happening all over the business world. Organizations of all sizes and in all industries are aggressively deploying innovative products to new online consumer channels, digitizing their core services and transitioning core business workloads to public clouds as part of digital transformation...

Q&A: Conducting Cloud-Based Vendor Risk Audits With Qualys SAQ

Third-party security assessments drastically reduce your organization’s risk of suffering a data breach. When carried out properly, these assessments identify poor InfoSec and privacy practices among your vendors, partners, contractors, and other third parties with access to your IT systems and...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, March 2025 Security Update Review

March 2025 Patch Tuesday is here, and Microsoft has rolled out critical security updates that address multiple vulnerabilities across its product suite. Here’s a quick breakdown of what you need to know. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for March 2025 Microsoft Patch's Tuesday, March 2025 edition addresse...

Leeloo Multipath: Authorization bypass and symlink attack in multipathd (CVE-2022-41974 and CVE-2022-41973)

The Qualys Research Team has discovered two vulnerabilities in multipathd, the most important of which can be exploited for authorization bypass. Qualys recommends security teams apply patches for these vulnerabilities as soon as possible. The Qualys Research Team combined these two vulnerabiliti...

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...

Policy Compliance Library Updates, July 2019

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...

Call For Customer Presentations at Black Hat USA 2019!

Tell your security story to your peers at Black Hat USA 2019! Qualys is looking for customers excited to share your security story, for example: How you integrate security into DevOps Best practices for building security into modern enterprises Case studies leveraging the use of the Qualys Cloud...

Eager to Boost your Container Security? Don’t Miss this Webcast

DevOps teams can’t get enough of containers -- and for good reason. Faster and more efficient application development and deployment, as well as increased application portability, are some container technology benefits, which in turn help drive digital transformation efforts. Container-based...

Meltdown / Spectre Mitigation Is a Work in Progress

Since researchers disclosed the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities on Jan. 3, vendors and IT departments have been consumed trying to figure out how to properly address the potentially devastating effects of these kernel-level bugs. By now, one thing we know for sure is that dealing with the...

Oracle Critical Patch Update, October 2024 Security Update Review

Oracle released the last quarterly edition of this year’s Critical Patch Update. The update contains patches for 334 security vulnerabilities. Some of the vulnerabilities addressed in this update impact more than one product. These patches address vulnerabilities in various product families,...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, February 2024 Security Update Review

The new Microsoft Patch Tuesday Edition for February 2024 is now live! We invite you to join us to review and discuss the details of these security updates and patches. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for February 2024 Microsoft Patch Tuesdays February 2024 edition addressed 79 vulnerabilities, including...

The Convergence of Endpoint Protection with Detection & Response

By almost every account, trend, or metric, the cybersecurity threat landscape is getting worse year over year. According to Qualys Labs, 2020 saw the highest number of vulnerabilities ever recorded. The average time it takes to patch vulnerabilities is months not weeks or days. Ransomware payouts...

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...

QSC 2018 Mumbai Finds Qualys at the Forefront of Digital Transformation Security

Qualys Security Conference 2018, held in Mumbai on May 10, fortified Qualys’ stand as the leader in securing Digital Transformation in the current global IT landscape. In his keynote, “Our Journey into the Cloud: The Qualys Platform and Architecture”, Qualys Vice President of Product Management...

Continuous Security and Compliance Monitoring for Global IT Assets

In today’s information security world, all assets everywhere must be detected, visible, protected and compliant -- all the time. It’s no longer enough to rely on “point in time” security and compliance assessments, such as scheduled weekly or monthly scans on handpicked critical servers. “You mus...

CrushFTP Zero-Day Exploitation Due to CVE-2024-4040

Vulnerability Scope & Details CrushFTP disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in their software on April 19, 2024. The vulnerability is published on CVE-2024-4040. Affected versions: 9.x versions before 10.7.1 11.1.0 The CVSS score is 9.8. The vulnerability allows remote attackers to bypass the VFS...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, March 2024 Security Update Review

Welcome to another insightful dive into Microsofts Patch Tuesday! This months security updates address a significant number of CVEs, underscoring the ongoing battle against digital vulnerabilities. We invite you to join us to review and discuss the details of these security updates and patches...

TruRisk™️ Insights – The Story Behind a TruRisk Score

In the world of cloud and SaaS security, where risks arise not only from vulnerabilities but also from misconfigurations and various threats, the task of prioritizing and managing them becomes increasingly complex. Its not just about identifying vulnerabilities; its also crucial to recognize and...

Google Android September 2021 Security Patch Vulnerabilities: Discover and Take Remote Response Action Using VMDR for Mobile Devices

The recently released Android Security Bulletin for September 2021 addresses 40 vulnerabilities, out of which 7 are rated as critical vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities affect open-source components such as the Android Framework, Android Media Framework, and Android System. The vulnerabilities...

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...

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...

February Patch Tuesday – 55 Microsoft vulnerabilities patched, 45 for Adobe

For this month's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released patches covering 55 vulnerabilities, with 15 ranked as critical. This includes out-of-band Office patches from mid-January as well as patches for Adobe Flash that were released last week. From this list, there are patches for a vulnerability...

QSC17 Focuses on Digital Transformation’s Challenges and Opportunities

Qualys Security Conference 2017 finds Qualys rapidly advancing in its ongoing quest to seamlessly and transparently thread security into the fabric of IT environments, and to make it essential for digital transformation. At QSC17, happening this week in Las Vegas, Qualys executives will share how...

The Critical Security Controls: Basic Cybersecurity Hygiene for your Organization

It’s a well-known fact that most successful cyber attacks are easily preventable. That’s because the majority are neither highly sophisticated nor carefully customized. Instead, they are of the “spray and pray” sort. They try to exploit known vulnerabilities for which patches are available, or to...

3CXDesktopApp Backdoored in a Suspected Lazarus Campaign

Introduction The attack involved a compromised version of the 3CX VoIP desktop client, which was used to target 3CXs customers. The compromised 3CX application is a private automatic branch exchange PABX software and is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, IOS and Chrome. Currently, ther...

QID Spotlight: Discover Azul Java Vulnerabilities

The Qualys vulnerability signatures team has released a new series of signatures detections for Azul Java, allowing security teams to identify Azul Java hosts and detect their vulnerabilities. Azul is a Java platform used for modern cloud enterprises. The platform is used for developing,...

Detect FritzFrog and Other Malware Infections with Inventory Data

Recently, Guardicore researchers discovered a new type of malware called “FritzFrog,” which targets multiple industry verticals, including government, finance, and healthcare. It employs brute-forcing SSH credentials as an initial attack vector, uses a proprietary P2P protocol to efficiently...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.43 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.43 includes updates and new features for Web Application Scanning, highlights as follows. Web Application Scanning Editable QID Severity – The severity of WAS QIDs can now be changed to better match your organization's internal policies...

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...

Countdown to GDPR: IT Policy Compliance

From the first page, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation stresses the importance it places on the security and privacy of EU residents’ private information. The 88-page document opens by referring to the protection of this personal data as a “fundamental right” essential for “freedom,...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, May 2024 Security Update Review

Microsoft has released its May edition of Patch Tuesday. Lets take a deep dive into the crucial insights from Microsofts Patch Tuesday updates for May 2024. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for May 2024 Microsoft Patch Tuesdays May 2024 edition addressed 67 vulnerabilities, including one critical and 59...

Snapd Race Condition Vulnerability in snap-confine’s must_mkdir_and_open_with_perms() (CVE-2022-3328)

The Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU has discovered a new vulnerability in snap-confine function on Linux operating systems, a SUID-root program installed by default on Ubuntu. Qualys recommends that security teams apply the patch for this vulnerability as soon as possible. In February 2022, Qualy...

Qualys FIM Profile Library Updates, December 2019

The library of out-of-the-box profiles in Qualys File Integrity Monitoring FIM, with their preconfigured content, provide a scalable solution to detect and identify critical changes, incidents, and risks resulting from normal as well as malicious events. With the help of these profiles, users can...

QSC18 Virtual Edition: Securing Containers – From Build to Deployments

DevOps teams have embraced Docker container technology because it boosts speed, agility, and flexibility in app development and delivery. But it also creates security and compliance challenges. “Containers are revolutionizing the IT landscape,” Hari Srinivasan, a Qualys Director of Product...

QSC18 Virtual Edition: Securing Hybrid IT Environments from Endpoints to Clouds

As organizations embrace digital transformation to boost business processes, traditional IT environments get altered, becoming distributed, elastic and hybrid. “That’s creating a new challenge for security,” Chris Carlson, Qualys’ Product Management VP, said during QSC18 Virtual Edition. As...

The Digital Transformation Age Is Dawning: Do You Know Where Your Certificates Are?

How many digital certificates are in use in your organization? When do they expire? Do you have a way of discovering digital certificates from unapproved Certificate Authorities? Most organizations can't answer these questions with complete certainty, because they lack the necessary visibility an...

Progress MOVEit Transfer Vulnerability Being Actively Exploited

On June 2nd, CVE-2023-34362 was published against the Progress MOVEit Transfer product and was quickly added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. MOVEit Transfer is a managed file transfer solution available as an on-premise solution that enables file transfer between business...