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...

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...

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...

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...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, August 2026 Security Update Review

The August 2026 Microsoft Patch Tuesday release delivers security fixes for vulnerabilities affecting a wide range of Microsoft products and services. As attackers continue to exploit unpatched vulnerabilities, timely patching remains critical for reducing exposure and strengthening enterprise...

Qualys Recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Forrester Wave™ for CNAPP

Qualys’ Key Takeaways Qualys Named a Leader: Recognized as one of only three leaders in The Forrester Wave: Cloud-Native Application Protection Solutions CNAPP, Q1 2026. Unified Platform: “Qualys has been actively expanding its platform to cover CSPM, CIEM, and even SaaS security posture manageme...

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 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...

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...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.33 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.33 includes the release for CertView, plus updates and new features for AssetView, Cloud Agent, EC2 Connector, Security Assessment Questionnaire, Web Application Scanning, and Web Application Firewall, highlights as follows. This posting has bee...

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,...

Black Basta Ransomware: What You Need to Know

Overview Black Basta is a ransomware group operating as ransomware-as-a-service RaaS, first spotted in April 2022. It is known to use double extortion techniques where the group demands payment for the decryption and non-release of stolen data. Earlier versions of Black Basta share many...

PCI DSS 4.0 FIM Requirements Simplified with Qualys File Integrity Monitoring

File Integrity Monitoring FIM is one of the essential requirements under PCI DSS 4.0. It helps organizations detect and respond to unauthorized changes in critical system files, configuration files, or content files, which is crucial for maintaining the security of cardholder data. Organizations...

Fingerprinting Web Applications and APIs using Qualys Web Application Scanning

Decoding the impact of Fingerprinting Organizations develop an effective, actionable go-to-market plan to launch a profitable product into the target market. A go-to-market strategy predicts market demand by analyzing market research, competitor data, and previous examples. Without a solid...

Join Qualys at Black Hat USA 2022!

Need to get more security? As a Titanium Sponsor of Black Hat USA 2022 Qualys will be located front and center in Booth 1320 on the show floor. Stop by and visit us to learn about our latest techniques, best practices, and solutions for risk-based vulnerability management, external attack surface...

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...

Proactively Managing High-Risk Vulnerabilities with TruRisk Mitigate™

In late 2024, organizations faced over 65 million detections from three critical vulnerabilities—CVE-2013-2900, CVE-2024-38122, and CVE-2024-30078—underscoring the urgent need for proactive vulnerability management. Adding to these challenges, the Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU uncovered five...

WhatsApp Fixed Critical Vulnerabilities that Could Let an Attacker Hack Devices Remotely – Automatically Discover and Remediate Using VMDR Mobile

WhatsApp has recently fixed critical and high-severity vulnerabilities affecting WhatsApp for Android, WhatsApp Business for Android, WhatsApp for iOS, and WhatsApp Business for iOS. Exploiting these vulnerabilities would be the first step of an attacker installing any malware on the device. In...

The Evolution of the Qualys Cloud Platform

The global pandemic has upended everything, and in the cyber security world in particular it has highlighted the need for organizations to have a cloud-based security and compliance platform, Qualys President and Chief Product Officer Sumedh Thakar said during his keynote Monday at Qualys Securit...

The Power and Future of the Qualys Cloud Platform

Qualys Security Conference 2019 kicked off this morning at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas. The event actually began on Monday with training sessions over the first two days, but this morning hundreds of attendees filled a conference room to listen to keynote presentations about the state of...

Countdown to Black Hat: Top 10 Sessions to Attend — #7

Black Hat USA 2019 is just weeks away, and with scores of training courses and research briefings to choose from, planning your schedule can be a challenge. To help you, we’re posting a weekly recommendation on our blog, and explaining why we think Qualys customers could find it useful and...

Qualys Cloud Suite 8.12 New Features

This new release of the Qualys Cloud Suite, version 8.12 adds new reporting options for the PC Report, allowing you to include new summaries in the remediation section of the report for control failures. Feature Highlights Qualys Policy Compliance PC/SCAP PC Report: Failure Summary Section – You...

Technical Deep Dive Into SolarWinds Breach

Many organizations have been compromised by the recent SolarWinds breach, which seems to be a targeted attack against both government and private agencies. The complete scale of this attack is still unknown, but what is known is that the hackers gained access to victims’ systems via malicious...

Policy Compliance Library Updates, January 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...

Threat Hunting: Adoption, Expertise Grow, but Work Remains

Threat hunting, an often misunderstood but powerful security practice, is gaining traction, as more organizations reap benefits from it and get better at it. However, there is still a lot of room for adoption to increase and for practices to improve. Those were key findings from the SANS...

Qualys Cloud Platform 8.15.2 New Features

Patch release of Qualys Cloud Platform, version 8.15.2, includes new support for Apache instance auto-discovery in Qualys Policy Compliance. Policy Compliance Apache Instance Auto-Discovery – This new feature in Qualys PC enables automatic discovery of Apache during compliance scans. Once one or...

Qualys TRU Uncovers Chained LPE: SUSE 15 PAM to Full Root via libblockdev/udisks

The Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU has discovered two linked local privilege escalation LPE flaws. The first CVE-2025-6018 resides in the PAM configuration of openSUSE Leap 15 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 15. Using this vulnerability, an unprivileged local attacker—for example, via SSH—can elevate ...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, September 2024 Security Update Review

Microsoft's September Patch Tuesday updates are out, addressing a range of vulnerabilities across multiple products. Let's dive into the key updates and their implications. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for September 2024 Microsoft Patch's Tuesday, September 2024 edition addressed 79 vulnerabilities,...

Qualys Helps Smaller Organizations Secure Hybrid IT with Free Offering

The digital transformation revolution waits for -- and spares -- no one. It forces all businesses to adopt tech innovations, like cloud, IoT and mobility, and to protect the resulting IT environments as they become hybrid, distributed and elastic. With traditional network perimeters dissolved,...

Securing your Cloud and Container DevOps Pipeline

Organizations are aggressively moving workloads to public cloud platforms, such as Amazon’s AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft’s Azure, upping the ante for InfoSec teams, which must protect these new environments. Driving this growth in cloud computing adoption is its essential role in digital...

Oracle Critical Patch Update, July 2026 Security Update Review

Oracle released its third quarterly edition of this year’s Critical Patch Update. The update received patches for 1449 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, November 2024 Security Update Review

Microsoft has released its November 2024 Patch Tuesday updates, targeting various vulnerabilities that could impact users and organizations worldwide. From zero-day threats to key product patches, here’s what’s crucial to apply this month. Here’s a breakdown of the updates and how they impact you...

Augment Security Asset Tagging with Custom Assessment and Remediation (CAR)

Security asset tagging provides a flexible and scalable way to organize the assets in your environment based on specific requirements. It enables you to create tags and assign them to your assets, which can improve your cybersecurity maturity and reduce risks for breaches and audit failures. Qual...

Introducing “This Month in Patches” Webinar Series

It’s no secret that the number of vulnerabilities is on the rise, and so too are the attempts by hackers to exploit them as quickly as they can. Over the last few years, the average time from vulnerability disclosure to exploit is down to a mere seven days. Organizations therefore need to move...

Qualys Response to Rapid7’s False Claims on VMDR

As remote working is becoming the need of the hour, IT and Security teams are working tirelessly to ensure continuity of services and deliver on all aspects of the business. To help our customers in these challenging times, we launched a 60-day no-cost ‘Remote Endpoint Protection’ service for...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.36 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.36 includes updates and new features for AssetView Cloud Assets and Cloud Agents and Web Application Scanning, highlights as follows. AssetView Rules for Cloud Assets and Cloud Agents Rule-Based Method to Purge/Uninstall Cloud Assets and Cloud...

April Patch Tuesday – 63 Microsoft vulnerabilities, 19 for Adobe

Today's Patch Tuesday is smaller than last month, but there are more critical updates this time. Out of the 63 vulnerabilities covered by the Microsoft patches, 22 of them are critical. Adobe has released 6 bulletins covering 19 vulnerabilities. According to Microsoft and Adobe, there are no acti...

New ‘Silence’ Banking Trojan copies Carbanak to Steal from Banks (Analysis with IOCs)

Dark Reading is reporting on a new banking trojan called 'Silence' that mimics techniques similar to the Carbanak hacker group targeting banks and financial institutions. The attack vector is similar – target individuals using spear-phish emails to trick them into running a malicious attachment...

InfoSec Pros Must Fasten Their Seatbelts for Digital Transformation Ride

The IT industry has gone through multiple revolutions – client-server computing, the Internet’s rise, virtualization, mobility – but none rivals the unprecedented impact of today’s digital transformation. The implications for InfoSec professionals are broad, requiring that they adapt quickly to t...

Gartner: The Pursuit of Perfection Weakens InfoSec Effectiveness

While malicious hackers are the obvious enemies of InfoSec pros, there’s something else that puts IT environments in danger: Perfectionism. When applied to security, perfectionism becomes detrimental, creating a false certainty that all bases are covered and yielding a fundamentally flawed approa...

Countdown to GDPR: Assess Vendor Risk

To comply with GDPR, organizations typically must overhaul and update a number of internal processes and systems, but they can’t ignore a critical area: risk from vendors and other third parties such as contractors, partners, suppliers and service providers. It’s a point that’s stressed repeatedl...

The HazyBeacon Protocol – How Malware Weaponizes Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda Function URLs

Key Takeaways HazyBeacon CL-STA-1020 targets Southeast Asian government networks by abusing AWS Lambda Function URLs configured with AuthType: NONE as stealth command-and-control relays. Attackers use stolen IAM credentials to deploy Lambda functions that proxy malware communications through...

Automating Vulnerability Management with Qualys VMDR & ServiceNow

With a growing number of cyber-attacks and the push to stay ahead of adversaries, the Vulnerability Management lifecycle has become necessary for ensuring enterprise-grade cyber resiliency. For many organizations, there is a persistent challenge in supporting vulnerability assessment and...

Securing Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS in Red Hat OpenShift with Qualys

Qualys full-stack security for Red Hat OpenShift adds visibility, actionable intelligence, and security auditing for Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS, the operating system that underpins OpenShift deployments for running containers securely. With this new offering, Qualys is now the first and only...

Adobe Flash Player Reaches End of Life on December 31, 2020

In July 2017, Adobe announced that Adobe Flash Player will reach “End of Life” EOL on Thursday, December 31, 2020. After this date, Adobe Flash Player will no longer be supported or distributed by Adobe. Adobe says that once Flash reaches its EOL date, there will be no further updates or security...

Secure Remote Endpoints from Vulnerabilities in Video Conferencing & Productivity Applications like Zoom

With millions working, learning and collaborating remotely due to COVID-19 challenges, there's an explosion of remote endpoints running Zoom and other collaboration and productivity applications such as Outlook, Teams, Webex, Slack, Office 365 and more. As remote endpoints are accessing...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.38 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.38 includes updates and new features for AssetView, Web Application Firewall, and Web Application Scanning, highlights as follows. AssetView Azure Instance State search token and Dynamic Tag Support – A new search token "azure.vm.state" is added...

GDPR Is Here: Web App Security Is a Must

With web and mobile apps becoming a preferred vector for data breaches, organizations must include application security in their plans for complying with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR. GDPR went into effect in May, imposing strict requirements on millions of businesses worldwid...

Save Time by Streamlining Vendor Risk Assessments in the Cloud

As your organization enthusiastically adopts cloud and mobile services from multiple new vendors, are your already-busy security and compliance teams scrambling to assess the risks of using these new providers’ products? Are you still using a manual process for conducting these vendor evaluations...

Better Trusted Scanning with Qualys-CyberArk Integration

To manage privileged credentials, especially across multiple systems in complex environments, many organizations use privileged account security solutions. Qualys has integrated with such solutions for a long time, and has recently upgraded its CyberArk integration to include CyberArk Application...