Countdown to Black Hat: Top 10 Sessions to Attend — #3

We’re getting closer to Black Hat USA 2019, whose program is loaded with scores of research briefings and training courses. For attendees, it’s always a challenge to decide which ones to put on their schedule -- and which ones to leave out. To help with this task, we’re recommending a Black Hat U...

Countdown to Black Hat: Top 10 Sessions to Attend — #2

Black Hat USA 2019 is still two months away, but it’s never too early for attendees to start planning their schedule. That’s why each week we’re recommending one session from the scores of research briefings and training courses that will be offered at the conference. Following our first pick las...

Exim MTA Vulnerability (The Return of the WIZard – CVE-2019-10149)

Last week, Qualys issued a security advisory for a vulnerability we discovered during a code review of Exim. This vulnerability can lead to Remote Command Injection, and is currently being actively attacked in the wild. This blog will show you how to quickly identify assets that are impacted by...

June 2019 Patch Tuesday – 88 Vulns, 21 Critical, Hyper-V Escape, Adobe Vulns

This month's Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 88 vulnerabilities with 21 of them labeled as Critical. Of the 21 Critical vulns, 17 are for scripting engines and browsers, and 3 are potential hypervisor escapes in Hyper-V. The remaining vulnerability is an RCE in the Microsoft Speech API. Microso...

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...

Countdown to Black Hat: Top 10 Sessions to Attend — #1

Black Hat USA 2019 offers a packed and impressive lineup of research briefings and hands-on training courses for the 19,000-plus security pros expected to attend this year’s event. The training sessions provide both offensive and defensive skills that security pros can use to tackle critical...

Integrating Threat and Vulnerability Management with Patch Management: The (Feasible) Quantum Leap

The rise of sophisticated attacks combined with the security-skills shortage have driven many organizations to go back to basics and review their processes for vulnerability and patch management. The approach is definitely a winning one, given that shrinking and managing the vulnerability surface...

Boosting Patch Management Is Key for Breach Prevention

Vulnerabilities that vendors have disclosed and issued patches for remain a major source of breaches. Why? Too many organizations take too long to deploy those patches -- or never do. That was the case with WannaCry. The ransomware exploited Windows vulnerability MS17-010, which Microsoft disclos...

Third-Party User Enumeration Issue Resolved

We were recently made aware of a user enumeration issue on the login page of SumTotal’s training website, a learning management solution that Qualys uses for its training and certification site. Upon learning of the issue, we immediately worked through the vendor to get it fixed. The training...

Qualys Cloud Platform (VM, PC) 8.19.1 New Features

This new release of the Qualys Cloud Platform VM, PC, version 8.19.1, includes newly added technology support for HP Safeguard and CISCO ACS 5, collected via Qualys Out-of-Band Configuration Assessment. Feature Highlights Qualys Policy Compliance PC New Technology Support - Qualys now supports th...

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...

Boost Security with These Gartner-Recommended Projects

Is your security team struggling to decide which projects will slash risk the most without breaking the bank? If so, we believe your security leaders can end analysis paralysis by perusing Gartner’s “Top 10 Security Projects for 2019” report. As its title states, the report recommends ten securit...

Windows RDP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (BlueKeep) – How to Detect and Patch

This month's Microsoft Patch Tuesday included a very high-risk vulnerability CVE-2019-0708, aka BlueKeep in Remote Desktop that impacts Windows XP, Windows 7, Server 2003, Server 2008, and Server 2008 R2. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker or malware to execute code on the...

Verizon’s DBIR Highlights Key Drivers of Security Risk

It’s that time of the year when Verizon updates us on the latest trends in the global threat landscape with its Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR. The findings in this year’s report are based on data provided by more than 70 sources including Qualys about more than 41,000 security incidents,...

May 2019 Patch Tuesday – 79 Vulns, 22 Critical, RDP RCE, MDS Attacks, Adobe Vulns

This month's Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 79 vulnerabilities with 22 of them labeled as Critical. Of the 22 Critical vulns, 18 are for scripting engines and browsers. The remaining 4 are remote code execution RCE in Remote Desktop, DHCP Server, GDI+, and Word. Microsoft also released guidanc...

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...

Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Update (March)

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...

Qualys Cloud Platform (VM, PC) 8.18.2 New Features

This new release of the Qualys Cloud Platform, version 8.18.2.0, includes the new look for the App Picker, new technology support for Unix UDCs, and error code/text for errors that occur during control evaluation. Feature Highlights Qualys Cloud Platform The App Picker has a new look – The apps i...

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...

Zombie POODLE and GOLDENDOODLE Vulnerabilities

Recently new vulnerabilities like Zombie POODLE, GOLDENDOODLE, 0-Length OpenSSL and Sleeping POODLE were published for websites that use CBC Cipher Block Chaining block cipher modes. These vulnerabilities are applicable only if the server uses TLS 1.2 or TLS 1.1 or TLS 1.0 with CBC cipher modes...

Qualys Training Update, April 2019

The Qualys Training team has expanded the AssetView & Threat Protection course, and added two new training series: CertView and Troubleshooting Scanner Appliance Error Codes. These new additions build on last month’s update, when we introduced the new Vulnerability Management learning path, which...

Monitoring AWS Golden AMI Pipelines with Slack

If your company uses Slack and is looking for ways to easily monitor activities in its AWS Golden AMI Pipeline, you can use AWS native services to send messages into a Slack channel. This can give your teams better visibility into the approval process for the candidate AMIs that they submit, as...

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...

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...

April 2019 Patch Tuesday – 74 Vulns, 16 Critical, 2 Actively Attacked, 1 PoC Exploit, Adobe Vulns

This month's Patch Tuesday addresses 74 vulnerabilities, with 16 labeled as Critical. Eight of the Critical vulns are for scripting engines and browser components, impacting Microsoft browsers and Office, along with another 5 Critical vulns in MSXML. Two Critical remote code execution RCE...

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...

Qualys Cloud Platform (VM, PC) 8.18.1 New Features

The patch release of the Qualys Cloud Platform, version 8.18.1.0-1, includes new support for HashiCorp Vaults as well as for Virtual Scanner Appliance for OCI and OCI-Classic Platforms. Feature Highlights Support for HashiCorp Vaults – This release adds a new vault type that can be used to retrie...

Qualys Cloud Platform (VM, PC) 8.18 New Features

This new release of the Qualys Cloud Platform VM, PC, version 8.18 contains several new features and improvements in Qualys Vulnerability Management and Policy Compliance, which include CertView Vulnerability Scan for EC2 Assets, support for new authentication types to filter vulnerabilities,...

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...

PCI & SSL/Early TLS QIDs 38601, 42366

Two QIDs will be marked as PCI Fail on May 1, 2019 as required by ASV Program Guide: QID 38601 “SSL/TLS Use of Weak RC4 Cipher” QID 42366 “SSLv3.0/TLSv1.0 Protocol Weak CBC Mode Server Side Vulnerability BEAST” Last revision of ASV Program Guide ver. 3.1 has the following for SSL/TLS component: “...

Jenkins Plugin v2 for Qualys WAS Now Available

We are pleased to announce that the Qualys WAS Jenkins plugin v2 is now available. This version of the plugin introduces new features to facilitate automation, and a more user-friendly design. What's New? Whereas the previous release of the plugin supported only Jenkins "pipeline" projects, the n...

March 2019 Patch Tuesday – 65 Vulns, 18 Critical, RCEs in DHCP Client, Adobe Vulns

This month's Patch Tuesday addresses 65 vulnerabilities, with 18 of them labeled as Critical. Thirteen of the Critical vulns are for scripting engines and browser components, impacting Microsoft browsers and Office. Three remote code execution RCE vulnerabilities are patched in the Windows DHCP...

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...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.37 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.37 includes updates and new features for Security Assessment Questionnaire and Web Application Scanning, highlights as follows. Security Assessment Questionnaire Manager access to all active campaigns – Questionnaire Manager role now has access ...

Know What’s on Your Network at All Times with Qualys Asset Inventory

Qualys has just launched a global IT asset inventory solution that offers full visibility across even the most hybrid, complex and distributed IT environments, addressing a challenge many security and IT teams face today. When IT directors and CISOs look at their digitally transformed networks,...

February 2019 Patch Tuesday – 74 Vulns, 20 Critical, Exchange 0-day, Adobe Vulns

This month's Patch Tuesday is very large, with 74 vulns being addressed of which 20 are labeled as critical. Fifteen of these critical vulns are in the Scripting Engine and browsers, with the remainder being GDI+, SharePoint, and DHCP. Microsoft also issued an Advisory for an Exchange 0-day, alon...

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...

Assess Vulnerabilities, Misconfigurations in AWS Golden AMI Pipelines

Today we’re starting a blog series focused on how to integrate Qualys solutions into DevSecOps for securing cloud infrastructures. In this initial post, we’ll discuss the importance of assessing vulnerabilities and misconfigurations on AWS pipelines. When developing golden Amazon Machine Images...

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...

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...

Policy Compliance Adds UDC Support for Cloud Agent

Qualys is extending the Cloud Agent capabilities for users of the Policy Compliance PC application by letting them define controls. Until now, the Cloud Agent could only assess Qualys PC’s “out of the box” controls. By adding support for user defined controls UDC, Qualys PC users now can use Clou...

Qualys Cloud Platform (VM, PC) 8.17 New Features

Qualys Cloud Platform VM, PC version 8.17 contains various feature enhancements in Qualys Vulnerability Management and Qualys Policy Compliance. In addition, this release also lowers the time required before pausing or canceling an ongoing scan. Previously, scheduled scans could be cancelled or...

mod_ssl Bug and SSL Labs Renegotiation Test

Update February 20, 2019: To give more time to fix, we will re-enable the SSL Labs Renegotiation Test on March 11, 2019 two additional weeks. The Apache Security Team fixed a bug which triggers whenever a client attempts renegotiation with Apache HTTP Server 2.4.37 and OpenSSL 1.1.1. This bug...

Qualys Cloud Platform (VM, PC) 8.16 New Features

This new release of the Qualys Cloud Platform VM, PC, version 8.16, contains several new improvements in Qualys Vulnerability Management and Qualys Policy Compliance, which includes new password security option, increased limit for virtual hosts that can be added to a subscription, added support...

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...

Detecting Insecure Cookies with Qualys Web Application Scanning

Cookies are ubiquitous in today's modern web applications. If an attacker can acquire a user's session cookie by exploiting a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability, by sniffing an unencrypted HTTP connection, or by some other means, then they can potentially hijack a user's valid session...

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...

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...

New Frontiers In Cryptojacking

Tejas Girme & Rishikesh Bhide of Qualys Malware Research Labs present “New Frontiers in Cryptojacking” at the 21st Anti-Virus Asia Researchers International Conference AVAR 2018 in Goa, India. Cryptojacking attacks are evolving over time to better evade detection by both end users and protection...

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...