Protect your Devices from Pegasus Spyware using VMDR for Mobile Devices’ Proactive Approach

Pegasus spyware is in the news, and it has been used to target devices of critical people from different sectors and countries including journalists, activists, politicians, and business executives. It has been said that a leaked list of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets was...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday (July 2021) – Microsoft 117 Vulnerabilities with 13 Critical, Adobe 26 Vulnerabilities

Microsoft Patch Tuesday – July 2021 Microsoft patched 117 vulnerabilities in their July 2021 Patch Tuesday release, and 13 of them are rated as critical severity. Critical Microsoft Vulnerabilities Patched CVE-2021-34448 – Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability This is being actively...

January 2019 Patch Tuesday – 47 Vulns, 7 Critical, Adobe Vulns

This month's Patch Tuesday is medium in size, with 47 vulns covered and only 7 labeled as Critical. Twenty-six of the vulns apply to Windows Servers and Workstation operating systems. Two of the Criticals apply to Hyper-V and could lead to RCE on the host system. Microsoft also issued and...

October 2018 Patch Tuesday – 49 Vulns, Critical browser patches, Hyper-V, Adobe vulns

In this month’s Patch Tuesday release there are 49 vulnerabilities patched with 12 Criticals. Out of the criticals, over half are browser-related, with the rest including Hyper-V and MSXML Parser. Microsoft Exchange covers CVE-2010-3190 which was not identified as in-scope product when originally...

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...

Text4Shell: Detect, Prioritize and Remediate The Risk Across On-premise, Cloud, Container Environment Using Qualys Platform

On 2022-10-13, Apache Security Team disclosed a critical vulnerability with CVE-2022-42889 affecting the popular Apache Commons Text library. This vulnerability is popularly named “Text4Shell” which when exploited can allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable...

NSA Alert: Topmost CVEs Actively Exploited By People’s Republic of China State-Sponsored Cyber Actors

On October 6, 2022, the United States National Security Agency NSA released a cybersecurity advisory on the Chinese government—officially known as the People’s Republic of China PRC states-sponsored cyber actors activity to seek national interests. These malicious cyber activities attributed to t...

RunC Container Breakout Vulnerability

Despite the huge advantages that containers offer in application portability, acceleration of CI/CD pipelines and agility of deployment environments, the biggest concern has always been about isolation. Since all the containers running on a host share the same underlying kernel, any malicious cod...

September Patch Tuesday – 79 Vulns, 17 Critical, Remote Desktop Client, SharePoint, Exploited PrivEsc

This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 79 vulnerabilities with 17 of them labeled as Critical. Of the 17 Critical vulns, 8 are for scripting engines and browsers, 4 are for the Remote Desktop Client, and 3 are for SharePoint. In addition, Microsoft has again patched a critical vulnerabili...

How to Discover Log4Shell Vulnerabilities in Running Containers & Images

If you run Java applications in containers, then it is critical that you check for Log4Shell vulnerabilities, given the high severity of this potential exploit. Qualys Container Security offers multiple methods to help you detect Log4Shell in your container environment. The Container Security...

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...

August Patch Tuesday: 25 critical Microsoft vulnerabilities, 43 for Adobe

Today Microsoft released patches covering 48 vulnerabilities as part of August’s Patch Tuesday update, with 15 of them affecting Windows. Patches covering 25 of these vulnerabilities are labeled as Critical, and 27 can result in Remote Code Execution. According to Microsoft, none of these...

August Patch Tuesday – 63 Vulns, L1TF (Foreshadow), Exchange, SQL, Active Attacks on IE flaw

In this month's Patch Tuesday release there are 63 vulnerabilities patched with 20 Criticals. Out of the criticals, over half are browser-related, with the rest including Windows, SQL, and Exchange. Active exploits have been detected against CVE-2018-8373, one of the scripting engine...

Qualys Survey of Top 10 Exploited Vulnerabilities in 2023

The Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU has thoroughly analyzed vulnerabilities reported in 2023. Our comprehensive study assesses factors including weaponization status, existence in the CISA KEV, instances or usage of malware and ransomware, trending vulnerabilities, various scoring metrics, and...

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”...

April 2020 Patch Tuesday – 113 Vulns, 19 Critical, Zero-Day Patches, SharePoint, Adobe ColdFusion

This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 113 vulnerabilities with 19 of them labeled as Critical. The 19 Critical vulnerabilities cover Adobe Font Manager Library 0-day, SharePoint, Hyper-V, Scripting Engines, Media Foundation, Microsoft Graphics, Windows Codecs, and Dynamics Business...

Shadow Brokers Fix for IBM Lotus Domino Released

IBM has released a patch for Lotus Domino to plug a security flaw which was disclosed in the latest Shadow Broker revelations. Lotus Domino includes an IMAP server. IMAP or Internet Message Access Protocol is an Internet standard protocol used by e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail messages from th...

Timely Password-Change Call from Twitter, as Bugs Hit WebEx and GPON routers

The cyber security news cycle is always active, so to help you stay in the loop here’s a selection of incidents that caught our attention over the past week or so involving, among others, Twitter, Cisco and GPON routers. Twitter picks a good day for password-change call As “change your password”...

Hackers Hit the Olympics, While Patch Tuesday and Meltdown / Spectre Keep IT Departments On Edge

This week offered a representative sampling of different corners of the cyber security world: The monthly Patch Tuesday, a brazen attack against the Olympics, new Meltdown and Spectre concerns, and a boost for Intel’s bug bounty program. Oh, and the gargantuan Equifax data breach may have been ev...

What’s Next After Log4Shell?

How To Deal With the Next Open-Source Vulnerability Using Custom Scripts A critical vulnerability in Apache’s Log4j Java-based logging utility CVE-2021-44228 was previously referred to as the “most critical vulnerability of the last decade.” In the wake of Log4Shell exploits, many security...

Qualys Cloud Platform 8.21.2 New Features

This new release of the Qualys Cloud Platform VM, PC, version 8.21.2, includes Virtual Scanner Appliance support for Alibaba Cloud Compute, scheduling of EC2 scans with no scannable EC2 assets in Asset Tags in Qualys Vulnerability Management, expanded support for instance discovery and auto recor...

Hackers Exploit Facebook Bug, As Twitter DMs (Maybe) Got Misrouted

In our latest security news digest, we check out the Facebook hack heard 'round the world, a Twitter bug that rattled users but may not amount to much, and a pair of serious Linux kernel vulnerabilities. Facebook scrambles to investigate major breach affecting tens of millions of users The cyber...

Free Training: New Certified Learning Paths

The Qualys Training team is eager to share all of the recent additions to our free training program, as well as provide insight into what is coming in 2019. You can expect to see regular updates as we continue to improve our training offerings! It is our mission to help Qualys customers and...

The March 2023 Patch Tuesday Security Update Review

Microsoft has released its monthly security update for March 2023. This months updates addressed various vulnerabilities in different products. Lets go through this months Patch Tuesday details and discuss the security updates. Microsoft Patches for March 2023 Microsoft has addressed 101...

Container Security Becomes a Priority for Enterprises

Among the IT innovations that businesses are using to digitally transform operations, containers might be the most disruptive and revolutionary. “They’re a real game changer,” Qualys Chief Product Officer Sumedh Thakar said at QSC 2018 in Las Vegas. DevOps teams have embraced containers because...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, July 2024 Security Update Review

Julys Patch Tuesday brings a midsummer wave of updates, addressing critical vulnerabilities and enhancing security across the Microsoft ecosystem. Lets discover the highlights from Microsofts Patch Tuesday updates for July 2024. Microsoft Patch Tuesday for July 2024 Microsoft Patch Tuesdays July...

Qualys Cloud Platform 8.21.2 New Features

The upcoming release of the Qualys Cloud Platform VM, PC, version 8.21.2, includes several new features in Qualys Cloud Platform and support for multiple technologies in Qualys Policy Compliance. The 8.21.2 release is scheduled to go live on 16th Sept, 2019. See full 8.21.2 new features blog post...

GDPR Compliance: Manage Procedural Risk Assessments with New GDPR Templates

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR goes into effect today, imposing strict security requirements on any company worldwide that handles the personal data of EU residents. Qualys Security Assessment Questionnaire SAQ – a Qualys app that helps you with this type of procedural risk...

Apple in the InfoSec Spotlight, as GitHub Falls Prey to Amplified DDoS Attack

Apple has been all over InfoSec news in the past week or so, along with Spectre / Meltdown developments, a tax season scam alert from the feds, and an apparent solution to the Winter Olympics' hack whodunit. In addition, researchers warned about a new trend of using Memcached servers to...

PCI & QID 38598 “Deprecated Public Key Length”

QID 38598 “Deprecated Public Key Length” will be marked as PCI Fail as of November 1, 2018 in accordance with its CVSS score. Under PCI DSS merchants and financial institutions are required to protect their clients' sensitive data with strong cryptography. Strong cryptography is defined in the...

Qualys Vulnerability Signature Release 2.4.722-4 Oracle DB New Feature

The release of the Qualys Vulnerability Signature, version 2.4.722-4, includes changes for Oracle Database signatures. The 2.4.722-4 release is live as of October 11, 2019. Feature Highlights Oracle Database Signatures 2019 With the 2.4.722-4 release, Qualys Vulnerability Management extends its...

Alpine Docker Image Vulnerability (CVE-2019-5021): How to Detect and Fix

A vulnerability affecting the official Alpine Docker images version =3.3 contains a null password for the root user. Due to the nature of this issue, systems deployed using affected versions of the Alpine Linux container that utilize Linux PAM, or some other mechanism that uses the system shadow...

In-Depth Look Into Data-Driven Science Behind Qualys TruRisk

Vulnerability Management is a foundational component of any cybersecurity program for the implementation of appropriate security controls and the management of cyber risk. Earlier this year Qualys introduced the latest iteration of its vulnerability management product VMDR 2.0 with TruRisk which...

Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday (August 2021) – Microsoft 51 Vulnerabilities with 7 Critical, Adobe 29 Vulnerabilities

Microsoft Patch Tuesday – August 2021 Microsoft patched 51 vulnerabilities in their August 2021 Patch Tuesday release, and 7 of them are rated as critical severity. Three 0-day vulnerability patches were included in the release. Critical Microsoft Vulnerabilities Patched CVE-2021-36942 - Windows...

iOS and iPadOS 14.7 and 14.7.1 Security Update: Discover Vulnerabilities and Take Remote Response Action Using VMDR for Mobile Devices

Apple recently released iOS and iPadOS 14.7 and 14.7.1 which include a security update that addresses almost 38 vulnerabilities, among them several critical RCE and privilege escalation vulnerabilities. Qualys recommends that security teams should immediately update all devices running iOS and...

December 2018 Patch Tuesday – 39 Vulns, Workstation Patches, Adobe Vulns

This month’s Patch Tuesday addresses 39 vulnerabilities, with 9 of them labeled as Critical. Out of the Criticals, most are browser-related, with the rest including Windows, and .net Framework. A Privilege Escalation vulnerability exists in Windows kernel which has been exploited in wild. Adobe...

Qualys Top 20 Most Exploited Vulnerabilities

The earlier blog posts showcased an overview of the vulnerability threat landscape that is either remotely exploited or most targeted by attackers. A quick recap – We focused on high-risk vulnerabilities that can be remotely exploited with or without authentication, and with the view on the time ...

Is Your Web Application Exploitable By Log4Shell Vulnerability?

On December 09, 2021, a critical remote code execution vulnerability was identified in Apache Log4j2 after proof-of-concepts were leaked publicly, affecting Apache Log4j 2.x = 2.15.0-rc1. The vulnerability is being tracked as CVE-2021-44228 with CVSSv3 10 score and affects numerous applications...

Qualys Tackles 2022’s Top Routinely Exploited Cyber Vulnerabilities

A unified front against malicious cyber actors is climactic in the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape. The joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA, a collaboration between leading cybersecurity agencies from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, is a critical guide to...

Qualys API Best Practices: KnowledgeBase API

This API Best Practices Series shows how to optimize your API usage starting with the KnowledgeBase API. The accompanying video presents these API best practices along with live code examples, so that you can effectively integrate the KnowledgeBase with other data and use it in process automation...

Cisco REST API Container for IOS XE Software Authentication Bypass Vulnerability – (CVE-2019-12643)

Cisco published an update for Cisco IOS XE operating system to patch a critical vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication on devices running an outdated version of Cisco REST API virtual service container. The security issue is tracked as CVE-2019-12643 and has...

Qualys Cloud Platform (VM, PC) 8.20.1 New Features

This new release of the Qualys Cloud Platform VM, PC, version 8.20.1, includes support for new technologies and platforms, addition of new technology for Windows UDCs as well as an update in an existing option name "Scan agent hosts in my target" in the Launch Vulnerability Scan page. Feature...

Security News: WannaCry Surfaces in Taiwan, as Reddit Breach Puts 2FA in the Spotlight

WannaCry rears its ugly head again. Reddit gets hacked, despite using two-factor authentication. A cryptojacking campaign targets carrier-grade routers. Here are some recent security industry news that have caught our attention. WannaCry hits Taiwan Semi The notorious WannaCry ransomware...

PCI DSS v3.2 & Private IP Address Disclosure

Private IP addresses disclosure such as QID 86247 “Web Server Internal IP Address/Internal Network Name Disclosure Vulnerability” will be marked as a Fail for PCI as of February 1, 2018 in accordance with PCI DSS v3.2. QID 86247 is a PCI Fail according to PCI DSS v3.2 Requirement 1.3.7: 1.3.7 Do...

Launching Qualys Cloud Threat Database

We are proud to announce the release of the Qualys Cloud Threat Database which correlates more than 25 different threat intelligence feeds into a single source for all Qualys products to leverage. This comprehensive vulnerability and threat intelligence database pulls from trusted sources such as...

Evaluate Your Windows Endpoints for Storm-0978 Activity With Qualys Endpoint Security

Summary: On July 11, Microsoft released security bulletins to fix 132 vulnerabilities. With the July Patch Tuesday, Microsoft also remediated six zero-day vulnerabilities. For your quick reference, the following are the zero-day vulnerabilities: 1. CVE-2023-32046 - Windows MSHTML Platform Elevati...

The January 2023 Oracle Critical Patch Update

This Oracle Critical Patch Update contains a group of patches for multiple security vulnerabilities that address 327 new security patches. Some of the vulnerabilities addressed this month impact various products. These patches address vulnerabilities in Oracle code and in third-party components...

Ransomware Targets Outdated VMware ESXi Hypervisors: Protect Your Systems Now!

Updated on February 8, 2023 at 2:40 PM Pacific Standard Time: This article has been updated with EVALUATE Vendor-Suggested Mitigation with Policy Compliance PC Updated on February 7, 2023 at 9:05 PM Pacific Standard Time: This article has been updated with the latest information on the...

OpenBSD Multiple Authentication Vulnerabilities

Multiple authentication vulnerabilities in OpenBSD have been disclosed by Qualys Research Labs. The vulnerabilities are assigned following CVEs: CVE-2019-19522, CVE-2019-19521, CVE-2019-19520, CVE-2019-19519. OpenBSD developers have confirmed the vulnerabilities and also provided a quick response...

Qualys Cloud Platform (VM, PC) 8.19 New Features

This new release of the Qualys Cloud Platform VM, PC, version 8.19, contains several new features and improvements in Qualys Vulnerability Management and Policy Compliance, which include an improved display of deadlines for remediation policies in VM; additional support for MS Exchange Server...