Unified SaaS Application Security, Detection, and Response

Organizations are rapidly embracing Software as a Service SaaS applications for scalability, ease & flexibility of use, and the benefits of not using their own infrastructure. To maintain their focus on business objectives during the new ‘remote workforce normalcy’, organizations have fast-tracke...

Unpacking the CVEs in the FireEye Breach – Start Here First

In a blog post on Dec. 22, 2020, Qualys revealed it has identified 7.5 million instances of vulnerability to the stolen FireEye Red Team assessment tools across an anonymized set of its 15,700-member customer base. Of the 7.5 million instances of vulnerability, 99.84% were caused by only 8 CVEs,...

CVE-2021-3156: Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in Sudo (Baron Samedit)

Update Feb 3, 2021: It has been reported that macOS, AIX, and Solaris are also vulnerable to CVE-2021-3156, and that others may also still be vulnerable. Qualys has not independently verified the exploit. Original Post: The Qualys Research Team has discovered a heap overflow vulnerability in sudo...

Dive Deep into VMDR

Qualys devoted the second day of the Qualys Security Conference entirely to vulnerability management, detection and response VMDR, a critical area for the security and compliance of hybrid cloud IT environments. Mehul Revankar, VP of Product Management and Engineering for VMDR at Qualys, set the...

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...

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...

Unified Vulnerability View of Unauthenticated and Agent Scans

Vulnerability scanning has evolved significantly over the past few decades. But the key goal remains the same, which is to accurately identify vulnerabilities, assess the risk, prioritize them, and finally remediate them before they get exploited by an attacker. Therein lies the challenge. It is...

January 2021 Patch Tuesday – 83 Vulnerabilities, 10 Critical, One Zero Day, Adobe

This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 83 vulnerabilities. The 10 Critical vulnerabilities cover Windows codecs, Office, HEVC video extensions, RPC runtime, and several other workstation vulnerabilities. Adobe released patches today for Photoshop, Campaign Classic, InCopy, Illustrator,...

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...

Qualys Security Advisory: SolarWinds / FireEye

Qualys Researchers found Millions of devices exposed to vulnerabilities used in the stolen FireEye Red Team tools and SolarWinds Orion by analyzing the anonymized set of vulnerabilities across Qualys’ worldwide customer base Qualys to offer a free 60-day integrated Vulnerability Management,...

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...

Solorigate/Sunburst : FireEye Breach Leveraged SolarWinds Orion Software

Update Dec 23, 2020: Added new section describing how to reduce risk with File Integrity Monitoring. Update Dec 22, 2020: FireEye Red Team tools & Solorigate/SUNBURST On December 13, SolarWinds released a security advisory regarding a successful supply-chain attack on the Orion management platfor...

Support Live Chat

In more than 4 months since Qualys launched Support Live Chat on the Customer Support Portal, we’ve seen customers use it successfully to get answers to quick support questions. Based on its success, we are scaling internal processes to accommodate greater usage, and we encourage all customers to...

QID Spotlight: Enhanced Oracle Java Discovery

Update December 15, 2020: This blog is updated with the FAQ section for customers to get more insight into QID details. Original Post: Securing Java instances has become critical for organizations because Javas wide use as an open-source component in applications has made it a captivating target...

Solorigate/Sunburst : Theft of Cybersecurity Tools | FireEye Breach

Update Jan 5, 2021: New patching section with two new dashboard widgets showing the number of missing FireEye-related patches in your environment and the number of assets in your environment missing one of those patches. Update Dec 23, 2020: Added a new section on compensating controls. Update De...

December 2020 Patch Tuesday – 58 Vulnerabilities, 9 Critical, Windows Exchange, Hyper-V, SharePoint, Adobe

This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 58 vulnerabilities with 9 of them labeled as Critical. The 9 Critical vulnerabilities cover Exchange, SharePoint, Hyper-V, Chakra Scripting, and several other workstation vulnerabilities. Adobe released patches today for Experience Manager, Prelude,...

Qualys Research Nominated for Pwnie Awards 2020

The Qualys Security Advisory team has been nominated for five Pwnie Awards this year in three different categories. In addition to nominations for Best Privilege Escalation Bug and Best Server-Side Bug 3 nominations, we are proud to be nominated for Epic Achievement. The Pwnie Awards are an annua...

An End-to-End Approach to Next-Gen Web Application and API Security

It was almost 10 years ago that Marc Andreessen wrote that software is eating the world. It is still true today, but I would be even more specific and say that web applications and APIs are eating the world. Our businesses run on web apps and APIs, and their ubiquity means that securing them has...

Securing Containers in Google Cloud Artifact Registry with Qualys

Container software supply chain is an area of concern for security teams in large and small enterprises because developers often make use of container images from a variety of public repositories. A single insecure container image can be instantiated several times and lead to a wide, diffused...

A Modern Approach to Risk Management and Compliance

For far too long, organizations had to rely on traditional Governance, Risk and Compliance GRC tools -- with their modular and siloed approach -- to address their risk management and reporting compliance posture. With an increasing number of organizations looking at the Integrated Risk Management...

Securing Cloud and Container Workloads: A View From the Trenches

Almost 15 years after Amazon launched AWS, public cloud platforms have become extraordinarily sophisticated and feature-rich, as well as wildly popular, creating a world of security and compliance challenges that gets more complex by the day, said Badri Raghunathan​, Qualys product management...

EDR Solutions Require Comprehensive Telemetry to Fend Off Multi-Vector Attacks

Endpoint devices are under increasingly aggressive and sophisticated attacks, so protecting them effectively from cyber criminals has become a thorny and vexing challenge as the threat landscape expands. It doesn’t help that endpoint protection today fluctuates between two strategies that are...

Dive Deep into VMDR

Qualys devoted the second day of the QSC USA 2020 virtual conference entirely to vulnerability management, detection and response VMDR, a critical area for the security and compliance of hybrid cloud IT environments. Mehul Revankar, VP of Product Management and Engineering for VMDR at Qualys, set...

November 2020 Patch Tuesday – 112 Vulnerabilities, 17 Critical, Windows Codecs, Network File System, Workstation, Adobe

This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 112 vulnerabilities with 17 of them labeled as Critical. The 17 Critical vulnerabilities cover Windows Codecs, Network File System, Sharepoint, Windows Print Spooler, and several other workstation vulnerabilities. Adobe released patches today for Ado...

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 the virtual QS...

Building an Open Cloud Platform

Qualys Chairman and CEO Philippe Courtot kicked off QSC USA 2020, the company’s 20th annual user 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 mus...

Built-in Runtime Security for Containers

Security teams struggle with visibility into behaviors inside their running containers. Qualys is today announcing general availability of Container Runtime Security CRS to provide industry-leading visibility for running containers using an approach that is container-engine agnostic and layered...

NSA Alert: Chinese State-Sponsored Actors Exploit Known Vulnerabilities

On October 20, 2020, the United States National Security Agency NSA released a cybersecurity advisory on Chinese state-sponsored malicious cyber activity. The NSA alert provided a list of 25 publicly known vulnerabilities that are known to be recently leveraged by cyber actors for various hacking...

Qualys Policy Compliance Plugin for Jenkins Now Available

Various factors may introduce vulnerabilities in a product during its lifecycle, resulting in a drift from the required compliance status. Hence, it is of utmost importance that security is baked into the product at every stage of development and possibilities of security gaps are ruled out. CI/C...

Auto-Discover and Secure Middleware Instances in Your Environment

Enterprise middleware plays a critical role in bringing together many moving parts within an organization, ensuring efficient collaboration, seamless integration and interoperability. A systematic evaluation of middleware architectures is important to thoroughly assess the overall security and...

Microsoft Windows TCP/IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-16898) – Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Using Qualys VMDR®

On October 13, 2020, Microsoft fixed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows TCP/IP stack for handling ICMPv6 Router Advertisement packets. While Microsoft ranks this vulnerability as “Exploitation More Likely,” we may see a proof-of-concept released soon. The security issue...

Discover A10 Networks Advanced Core OS Vulnerabilities using Qualys VMDR

The Qualys vulnerability signatures team has released a new series of signatures detections for A10 Networks ACOS Advanced Core Operating System, allowing security teams to identify A10 hosts and detect their vulnerabilities. A10 Advanced Core Operating System with true Scalable Symmetrical...

October 2020 Patch Tuesday – 87 Vulnerabilities, 11 Critical, SharePoint, TCP/IP Stack, Graphics, Adobe Vulns

This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 87 vulnerabilities with 11 of them labeled as Critical. The 11 Critical vulnerabilities cover TCP/IP Stack, SharePoint, Windows Camera Codec Pack, Graphics and several other workstation vulnerabilities. Adobe issued patches today for Adobe Flash...

Instrument VMware Virtual Machines for Security and Compliance

How do you ensure Qualys is managing the security and compliance of all your VMware workloads? First, you need to have Qualys Cloud Agent installed and running on all of your VMware virtual machines. While VMware vCenter knows the exact inventory of your virtual machines at all times, it doesn’t...

Detecting HTTP Request Smuggling with Qualys WAS

HTTP Request Smuggling HRS is a web application vulnerability that enables an attacker to craft a single request that hides a second request within the body of the first request. HRS enables the following types of attack: Web cache poisoning Web cache deception Session hijacking Cross-site...

PAN-OS Critical Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CVE-2020-2040) – Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Using Qualys VMDR®

On Sept 9, 2020, Palo Alto Networks published nine security bulletins addressing vulnerabilities in PAN-OS operating system versions 8.0 or later. One of the nine CVEs released, CVE-2020-2040, received a critical severity rating score of 9.8 based on the CVSS v3 Scoring system. PAN-OS devices are...

Vulnerability Detection Pipeline (Beta)

Update October 22, 2020: The Vulnerability Detection Pipeline beta has been updated to include detections of all severities. It now gives visibility into upcoming and recently published detections with severity 3, 2 and 1 in addition to severity 5 and 4. The pipeline also supports a URL parameter...

Microsoft Netlogon Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472 – Zerologon) – Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Using Qualys VMDR®

Update October 1, 2020: Microsoft has added step-by-step Zerologon patching instructions because the original instructions "proved confusing to users and may have caused issues with other business operations." Update October 1, 2020: Qualys released new QID 91680 to add a remote unauthenticated...

Discover Gentoo Linux Vulnerabilities using Qualys VMDR

The Qualys vulnerability signatures team has released a new series of signatures detections for Gentoo Linux, allowing security teams to identify Gentoo Linux hosts and detect their vulnerabilities. Gentoo Linux is a Linux distribution built using the Portage package management system. It is a fr...

September 2020 Patch Tuesday – 129 Vulnerabilities, 23 Critical, SharePoint, Exchange, Windows Codecs, Adobe Vulns

This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 129 vulnerabilities with 23 of them labeled as Critical. The 23 Critical vulnerabilities cover SharePoint, Exchange, Dynamics 365, Windows Codecs, and several other workstation vulnerabilities. Adobe released patches today for Experience Manager,...

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...

Discover EulerOS Vulnerabilities using Qualys VMDR

The Qualys vulnerability signatures team has released a new series of signatures detections for EulerOS, allowing security teams to identify EulerOS hosts and detect their vulnerabilities. EulerOS is a Linux distribution developed by Huawei Technologies and widely adopted by customers in Asia,...

Meow Attack: A Reminder for Organizations to Identify and Secure Their Databases

Thousands of unsecured internet-facing databases have fallen prey to the “Meow” attack and have been permanently destroyed. Meow attacks replace the original index with a newly created one with the suffix “-meow”. With no ransomware demands or any other explanatory note, the attackers seem to hav...

Automated Discovery and Assessment of PaaS Databases with Lambda Service for Qualys Policy Compliance

In the last several years, Platform as a Service PaaS solutions have evolved and matured. As organizations have focused on digital transformation, there has been a major shift towards adopting PaaS solutions driven by benefits including scalability, agility, faster deployment, and cost-effective...

August 2020 Patch Tuesday – 120 Vulnerabilities, 17 Critical, Media Foundation, Windows Codecs, Workstation, Adobe

This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 120 vulnerabilities with 17 of them labeled as Critical. The 17 Critical vulnerabilities cover Media Foundation, .NET Framework, Browsers, Scripting Engines, Office, Outlook, Windows Codecs and several other workstation vulnerabilities. Adobe release...

Continuous Monitoring and Beyond

As security professionals, we struggle with the high volume of data we need to sort through while trying to parse out the critical alerts that are important for us to take immediate action upon. Being at the forefront of innovation for the past 20 years, Qualys offers 20 plus solutions which all...

Join us at Black Hat USA 2020!

Qualys is excited to present two sponsored sessions at the Black Hat USA 2020 virtual event, open to all attendees with the free Business Hall pass. Register or log in to Black Hat USA 2020, and then view and register for these free sessions. Join us to learn about our new multi-vector EDR soluti...

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”...

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...

July 2020 Patch Tuesday – 123 Vulnerabilities, 18 Critical, Hyper-V RemoteFX, DNS Server, Workstation, Adobe

This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 123 vulnerabilities with 18 of them labeled as Critical. The 18 Critical vulnerabilities cover Hyper-V, DNS Server, PerformancePoint, SharePoint Server, Office, Outlook, Remote Desktop, and several other workstation vulnerabilities. Adobe issued...