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October 2026

  1. Operationalizing CISA AA26-194A: Automating Cisco Router Security Assessments with Qualys Policy Audit
  2. Can’t Patch Node.js Yet? Build a Stopgap with the Controls You Own
  3. Can’t Patch PHP2Shell Yet? Build a Stopgap with the Controls You Own
  4. How to Identify Compromised eMudhra Certificates With Qualys (CVE-2026-111943 and CVE-2026-111944)
  5. Node.js Patches Brotli Remote Code Execution Flaw: Find Vulnerable Runtimes Before Attackers Do
  6. The Science of Exploitability: Decoding BlueHammer
  7. Two Critical PHP Flaws Could Hand Attackers Your Web Servers. Here’s How to Find, Mitigate, and Patch PHP2Shell Now
  8. The Real Jump Scare Isn’t the Attacker; It’s The Vulnerabilities You’re Focusing On
  9. TruConfidence: Why Your Patch Automation Can Finally Be Autonomous
  10. Microsoft Patch Tuesday, October 2026 Security Update Review
  11. Exploitability Needs Runtime Evidence: Understanding Runtime Vulnerability Reachability for Containers
  12. Secure Your Mission-Critical Application Estate: Qualys TotalAppSec is Now FedRAMP High Authorized (FedRAMP Certified Class D)

September 2026

  1. Autonomous Remediation Is Already Running at Enterprise Scale
  2. Lessons from Microsoft Patch KB5002907: Two Layers of Patch Control in Qualys TruRisk Eliminate
  3. The Developer is the New Perimeter: How Supply Chain Attacks Are Becoming Cloud Breaches
  4. CISA BOD 26-04 Timelines for Three Linux Kernel CVEs
  5. The End of Point-in-Time Compliance: Why Continuous Audit Readiness Matters to You in the AI Era
  6. The Autonomous Engine Behind Remediation, and What Finally Makes It Safe
  7. Oracle Critical Security Patch Update, September 2026 Review
  8. Before You Patch. Why Patch Reliability Matters for Confident Deployment
  9. Automate Asset Isolation: Your Last Resort to Meet Remediation Deadlines
  10. What Is ISPM? How It Differs from IAM, PAM, IGA, and IDaaS
  11. The Models That Found 10,000 Zero-Days Broke Into Three Companies Using Weak Passwords
  12. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, September 2026 Security Update Review
  13. 4 Questions to Ask When Evaluating an Exposure Management Platform
  14. Anatomy of a Silent Domain Takeover

August 2026

  1. PCI DSS 4.0.1: Application Requirements You’re Being Assessed On in 2026
  2. When an AI Agent Turned Attacker: What Qualys Sees Across Every Phase of the Hugging Face Kubernetes Intrusion
  3. Beyond Patching: What IT Teams Need to Know About Unpatchable Exposures
  4. CVE-2026-69414 ShieldBreak Zero-Day: No Patch, and CISA BOD 26-04 Gives You 14 Days
  5. Oracle Critical Patch Update, August 2026 Security Update Review
  6. CVE-2026-68820 is in KEV. Here Is What CISA BOD 26-04 Actually Requires Now
  7. Why API Discovery Is Critical for Modern AppSec Programs
  8. Qualys Introduces Real-Time Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) for Faster Risk Detection and Remediation
  9. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, August 2026 Security Update Review
  10. Audit Fix: Audit Readiness for the Post-Mythos Era
  11. Zero-Day Remediation Meets Operational Resiliency
  12. Agent Val Now Validates the Entire Attack Surface: From Network to Host
  13. Say Hello to Agent Insta: Closing the Detection Gap in Exposure Management at Machine Speed

July 2026

  1. Operationalize AI Governance Across Shadow GenAI, MCP, and Agentic Workloads with Qualys TotalAI
  2. Qualys Expands Serverless Security with Vulnerability Scanning for AWS Lambda
  3. The Sub-10-Minute Cloud Takeover: How Exposed IAM Keys, Misconfiguration and AI Are Rewriting the Rules of Cloud Breaches
  4. RefluXFS: A Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation to Root in XFS (CVE-2026-64600)
  5. Oracle Critical Patch Update, July 2026 Security Update Review
  6. Manual Patching Can’t Outrun AI. Automated Remediation Can.
  7. CVE-2026-8933: Local Privilege Escalation in Set-Capabilities snap-confine
  8. Is Your Security Program Ready for AI-Speed Application Exploitation?
  9. Top Five Compliance Audit Software and Tools: Mastering Modern Regulatory Risk
  10. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, July 2026 Security Update Review
  11. How Qualys ETM Identity Detects Identity-Based Attacks Faster
  12. How to Meet a 3-Day Remediation SLA & Comply with CISA BOD 26-04
  13. When AI-Accelerated Discovery Outruns Patching, Exploitability Proof Decides What Gets Fixed First
  14. FortiBleed: Credential Reuse, Legacy Hashes, and the Risk of Internet-Exposed FortiGate Devices
  15. Operationalizing Day Minus Seven: The Cloud-Native ROC
  16. Qualys Joins Cisco Cloud Control Studio as a Launch Partner to Bring Risk Intelligence to Agentic Operations
  17. Is Your AppSec Program Built to Close the OWASP Top 10 2025 Coverage Gap?

June 2026

  1. CERT-In’s AI Vulnerability Blueprint: Why Indian CISOs Need Machine-Speed Risk Operations in the Post-Mythos Era
  2. 3 Paths to Upgrade Windows 11 before 24H2 End of Servicing (EOL)
  3. CNAPP’s New Normal: Hyper-Prioritization and Autonomous Remediation at Cloud Scale
  4. Oracle Critical Patch Update, June 2026 Security Update Review
  5. What Changed in OWASP Top 10 2025 and Recommendations for Each Category
  6. How Federal Agencies Can Activate a Risk Operations Center (ROC) to Meet CISA BOD 26-04
  7. Turning Millions of Risks Into One Actionable List
  8. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, June 2026 Security Update Review
  9. Advancing Cybersecurity in the Age of Frontier AI: Qualys Steps into Project Glasswing
  10. From Operating Model to Product: How We Built the ROC for Detection-Speed Remediation
  11. Stop Patching at Human Speed: Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Distribution Closes the Remediation Gap Before Attackers Strike
  12. The HazyBeacon Protocol – How Malware Weaponizes Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda Function URLs

May 2026

  1. Extending EOL/EOS Software Intelligence Across Containers, Kubernetes, and Modern Workloads
  2. CVE-2026-46333: Local Root Privilege Escalation and Credential Disclosure in the Linux Kernel ptrace Path
  3. Inside the 2026 Verizon DBIR: What One Billion Records Revealed About Vulnerability Remediation
  4. Achieve FedRAMP High M365 Security: Governing with Qualys SSPM and SCuBA
  5. Stop Chasing Threats: Top 3 Insights from the SANS Attack Surface Management Survey
  6. FedRAMP High Authorized: Qualys TotalCloud CNAPP – From Compliance to Defense
  7. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, May 2026 Security Update Review
  8. Bringing AI Code Security into Qualys ETM
  9. Dirty Frag: Using the Page Caches as an Attack Surface
  10. Before the Breach, There Was a Test Environment
  11. Qualys TotalAI Achieves FedRAMP Moderate (FedRAMP Certified Class C) Authorization
  12. Converge Connect: Unlock Lower Premiums with Proven Qualys Security
  13. Handling the Vulnerability Surge in the Post-Mythos Era

April 2026

  1. Don’t Wait for a Patch. Mitigate RedSun Zero-Day Risk in Microsoft Defender Today
  2. Oracle Critical Patch Update, April 2026 Security Update Review
  3. Enterprise Remediation Benchmark: How Does Your Organization Compare?
  4. Qualys VMDR and TotalCloud™ Now Available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace
  5. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, April 2026 Security Update Review
  6. Anatomy of an Autonomous AI Agent Risk: How Qualys ETM Connects the Dots on OpenClaw
  7. Deep Scan: Expanding Vulnerability Detection Beyond Traditional Boundaries
  8. The Mythos Inflection Point: Dealing With the Upcoming Vulnerability Disclosure Avalanche and Compressed Exploitation Window
  9. Scaling Modern AppSec: Moving from Static Profiles to AI-Powered Scan Optimization
  10. 12 Best Practices for Securing AWS Cloud in 2026
  11. Signals from the Cloud Security Forecast 2026: Cloud Risk Is Scaling through Design, Not Disruption
  12. Why Every Enterprise Needs a Risk Operations Center (ROC)

March 2026

  1. Optimizing Risk Discovery and Remediation with Qualys Gateway Service (QGS)
  2. The Rise of Managed Risk Operations: How the New Qualys mROC Portal Helps Partners Scale the Risk Operations Center
  3. From Vision to Real-time Threat Intelligence: TruLens for ETM
  4. Threat Research Report: The Broken Physics of Remediation
  5. Meet Agent Val: Closing the Validation Gap in Exposure Management at Machine Speed with Agentic AI
  6. Bringing Continuous Assessment to Harbor: Scan on Push, Stay Secure Over Time
  7. MCP Servers Are the New Shadow IT for AI
  8. 5 Steps to Turn Compliance Checks into Audit Outcomes
  9. CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root
  10. Countering Current Geopolitical Cyber Threats With Qualys
  11. The New Era of Application Security: Reasoning-Based Agents, Runtime Reality, and Risk Intelligence
  12. CrackArmor: Critical AppArmor Flaws Enable Local Privilege Escalation to Root
  13. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, March 2026 Security Update Review
  14. From Shadow Models to Audit-Ready AI Security: A Practical Path with Qualys TotalAI
  15. Cyber Essentials Plus in 2026: Strengthened Controls, UK Cyber Reality & How Qualys Supports Compliance

February 2026

  1. How Security Tool Misuse Is Reshaping Cloud Compromise
  2. New: AI-Powered Patch Reliability Scoring—Predict Patch Impact Before You Deploy
  3. Qualys Recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Forrester Wave™ for CNAPP
  4. Active Directory Attacks Demystified: Pass-the-Hash (PtH), Pass-the-Ticket (PtT), and Beyond
  5. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, February 2026 Security Update Review
  6. TruConfirm: Autonomous, Agent-Led, Safe Exploit Validation for Real-World Risk Reduction
  7. Mutagen Astronomy: From Discovery to CISA Recognition—A Seven-Year Journey

January 2026

  1. ROC vs. CTEM: How a Risk Operations Center Evolves Beyond Continuous Threat Exposure Management in 2026
  2. Top 10 Cloud Compliance Tools for Enterprise Security and Audit Readiness in 2026
  3. How Public Container Registries Have Become a Silent Risk Multiplier in a Modern Supply Chain
  4. Qualys Named a Leader and Outperformer in the 2025 GigaOm Radar for CNAPP
  5. Cybersecurity Predictions for 2026 Signal the Maturation of Risk-First Security Models
  6. Your VMDR Year in Review: Making Security Progress Visible and Actionable
  7. Why Serverless Risk Demands Identity-Aware Security at Cloud Scale
  8. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, January 2026 Security Update Review
  9. Agent Grant: From Identity Signals to Measurable Risk Reduction
  10. Cloud Agent in 2025: A Year of Scale, Security, and Smarter Visibility

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December 2025

  1. Your Guide to PCI DSS 4.0.1 Web Application and API Controls with a Simplified Path to Compliance
  2. ShadyPanda: The Silent Browser Takeover Threat and How Qualys TruRisk Eliminate Helps You Stop It
  3. Navigating Change: Evolving Your Exposure Management Strategy in a Post-Kenna World with Qualys
  4. Scale AI Securely with Qualys TotalAI’s Streamlined Onboarding, Deeper Risk Detection, and Compliance-Ready Reporting
  5. React2Shell: Decoding CVE-2025-55182 – The Silent Threat in React Server Components
  6. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, December 2025 Security Update Review
  7. Active Exploitation of 7-Zip RCE Vulnerability Shows Why Manual Patching is No Longer an Option

November 2025

  1. The Future of Cloud Security: A New Act for Cyber Risk Operations
  2. From Vision to Value: Gartner® Identifies Qualys as 2025 Magic Quadrant™ Leader in Exposure Assessment Platforms
  3. Zero-Day Zero: The AI Attack That Just Ended the Era of the Forgiving Internet
  4. GenAI: Harness the Power, Eliminate the Risk — A Practical Playbook for Securing AI from Day One
  5. What is Patch Management Automation and Why It Matters
  6. What It Takes to Design Trust into Event-Driven Architectures with Amazon EventBridge
  7. Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass in Fortinet FortiWeb (CVE-2025-64446) Exploited in the Wild
  8. Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2025 Security Update Review
  9. Battle Compliance Confusion and Security Fatigue with Qualys and ServiceNow
  10. Inside an Automotive Giant’s Data Leak — A Cloud Misconfiguration Lesson for AWS Users

October 2025

  1. What Security Teams Need to Know as PHP and IoT Exploits Surge
  2. Oracle Critical Patch Update, October 2025 Security Update Review
  3. A Strategic Response to the F5 BIG-IP Nation-State Breach 2025
  4. Bringing the Power of Agentic AI for Identity Risk, Adaptive Threat Prioritization, and Exposure Exploitability Validation
  5. Introducing TruConfirm for Enterprise TruRisk™ Management: Automated Exposure Validation
  6. Introducing TruLens for Enterprise TruRisk™ Management: Unified Threat Intelligence
  7. Qualys ETM Identity — The First True Quantification of the Identity Perimeter
  8. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, October 2025 Security Update Review
  9. Qualys Recognized as a Leader in the 2025 GigaOM Radar for Patch Management Solutions
  10. Ensuring Safe and Reliable Updates with Qualys TruRisk™ Manifest Version Control
  11. Subscription Health Dashboard 2025 Update
  12. How to Prevent NPM Supply Chain Attacks in CI/CD Pipelines with Container Security

September 2025

  1. Qualys Named a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Exposure Management Vendor Assessment
  2. How Agentic AI Powers Seamless Audit Readiness with Agent Chang
  3. Patch Automation for Browsers with TruRisk™ Eliminate
  4. Steps to TruRisk™ – 5: Eliminate Risk and Lead with Confidence
  5. Introducing Enhanced User Interface for Qualys PCI DSS 4.0 ASV Compliant Solution
  6. Navigating SEBI’s Cloud Security Requirements: A Guide for Regulated Entities
  7. Patch Tuesday Risk Elimination with Agent Sara
  8. When Dependencies Turn Dangerous: Responding to the NPM Supply Chain Attack
  9. Outdated Tech, Rising Risk: How Federal Agencies Can Eliminate Tech Debt and Reduce Cyber Risk
  10. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, September 2025 Security Update Review
  11. Shaping the Future of Cyber Risk Management: QSC Evolves to ROCon
  12. Salesloft Drift Supply Chain Incident
  13. CVE-2025-8088 WinRAR Exploit: From Zero-Day to Zero-Risk with TruRisk™ Eliminate
  14. Operationalizing Threat Exposure with Agentic AI: Meet Agent Nova

August 2025

  1. Qualys Achieves FedRAMP® High ATO: Unlocking the Future of Trusted Cybersecurity for Government and Critical Infrastructure
  2. Chatbots, APIs, and the Hidden Risks Inside Your Application Stack
  3. Introducing the Qualys App Picker: Easier, Faster Navigation for All Your Security Applications
  4. How Agentic AI Helps with Adaptive Cloud Risk Assessment with Agent Vikram
  5. Unleashing Agentic AI for Superior Threat-Informed Risk Prioritization with Agent Nyra
  6. Remediate WMI Class Corruption Errors with Qualys TruRisk™ Eliminate
  7. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, August 2025 Security Update Review
  8. Eliminate Risk from Older and Unmanaged Java Installations
  9. Two Pwnie Awards, One Crucial Lesson: What Our OpenSSH Research Reveals About Cyber Defense in 2025
  10. Compliance Without Coverage is a Risk: How to Close the Gaps with Qualys Policy Audit
  11. Unpacking Qualys Agentic AI: Technical Insights into Its Architecture and Capabilities
  12. From Exposure Whack-a-Mole to Autonomous Cyber Risk Management: Meet Agentic AI on the Qualys Platform

July 2025

  1. Securing Cloud AI and LLMs with TotalAI for Visibility, Risk Context and Control
  2. Fortifying Your AWS Cloud Against Cross-Service Confused Deputy Attacks
  3. ToolShell Zero-day: Microsoft Rushes Emergency Patch for Actively Exploited SharePoint Vulnerabilities
  4. Understanding the Impact of Scattered Spider on the Airline & Transportation Industry
  5. Smarter ITSM Automation with ServiceNow Integration
  6. Oracle Critical Patch Update, July 2025 Security Update Review
  7. The State of Cyber Risk 2025: Business Context Needed
  8. Achieving Zero-Disruption Patch Management with Qualys’ Latest Capabilities
  9. Google Chrome to Distrust Chunghwa & Netlock Certificates: How Qualys Certificate View Helps You Respond
  10. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, July 2025 Security Update Review
  11. Qualys Named as a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform, 2025
  12. Qualys Named an Overall Leader in CNAPP by KuppingerCole

June 2025

  1. Steps to TruRisk™ – 4: Quantify Risk and Communicate Effectively
  2. From Patching to Eliminating Risk: What’s new in TruRisk™ Eliminate and Patch Management
  3. Lessons from Qilin: What the Industry’s Most Efficient Ransomware Teaches Us
  4. Qualys TRU Uncovers Chained LPE: SUSE 15 PAM to Full Root via libblockdev/udisks
  5. Building Resilient Software Supply Chains: Inside the Enhanced Qualys Software Composition Analysis
  6. Qualys VMDR Wins at 2025 SC Awards Europe for Best Vulnerability Management Solution
  7. Qualys TotalCloud Wins “Best Cloud Security Product” at 2025 SC Awards Europe
  8. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, June 2025 Security Update Review
  9. Qualys Recognized as The Leader in Attack Surface Management by KuppingerCole
  10. Ensure PCI 4.0 Readiness with File Integrity Monitoring for Containers

May 2025

  1. Qualys TRU Discovers Two Local Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities in Apport and systemd-coredump: CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598
  2. Eliminate Risk with Precision: Introducing Vulnerability Detection Sources in VMDR
  3. Building Confidence in Cyber Essentials Compliance with Qualys Policy Audit
  4. Simplifying DORA Compliance with the Qualys Enterprise TruRisk™ Platform
  5. Fileless Execution: PowerShell Based Shellcode Loader Executes Remcos RAT
  6. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, May 2025 Security Update Review
  7. Security, Uninterrupted: Inside Qualys’ Zero-Touch Security Vision with Qualys Cloud Agent
  8. Inside LockBit: Defense Lessons from the Leaked LockBit Negotiations
  9. Powering the Future of Cyber Risk Management: Welcoming Our First mROC Alliance Members
  10. Bridging the Gap: How Qualys Simplifies NCA ECC 2024 Compliance for Businesses
  11. Remediate Risk Without the Roadblocks: Automate with Qualys Flow

April 2025

  1. Guard Against GenAI and LLM Risks from Development to Deployment with Qualys TotalAI
  2. Shrinking Lifespans, Growing Risk: The Final Certificate Countdown
  3. Introducing Qualys Policy Audit: The New Standard for Regulatory Compliance and Audit Readiness
  4. The Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR): Six Trends You Can’t Ignore
  5. Steps to TruRisk™ – 3: Get started with Business-Driven Risk Prioritization
  6. The Importance of Continuous Vulnerability Assessment in Modern IT Environments
  7. Zero-Day Vulnerabilities: From Exploit Discovery to Enterprise Defense
  8. API Security: Safeguarding Your Digital Infrastructure from Attacks
  9. Data Leakage Prevention in AI
  10. AI Workload Security
  11. Risk Mitigation for Generative AI Workloads
  12. LLM Security
  13. AI Security Monitoring
  14. What is SSPM (SaaS Security Posture Management)? Explained by Qualys
  15. What is Cloud Workload Protection (CWP)? Explained by Qualys
  16. What is CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management)? Explained by Qualys
  17. What is Kubernetes Container Security (KCS)? Explained by Qualys
  18. AI Security Posture Management
  19. Oracle Critical Patch Update, April 2025 Security Update Review
  20. Safeguarding Vulnerability Management Despite MITRE Funding Risks
  21. The Efficiency Imperative: How Federal Agencies Can Streamline Cybersecurity Operations
  22. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, April 2025 Security Update Review
  23. Steps to TruRisk™ – 2: Measure the Likelihood of Vulnerability Exploitation
  24. The State of Cloud & SaaS Security: Essential Statistics and Insights

March 2025

  1. Qualys TRU Discovers Three Bypasses of Ubuntu Unprivileged User Namespace Restrictions
  2. How DevOps Can Move Fast and Stay Secure with TruRisk
  3. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, March 2025 Security Update Review
  4. Steps to TruRisk™ – 1: Shift to Priority-Driven Strategies
  5. Qualys & ServiceNow: Automating Risk-Driven Remediation for Container Security
  6. How Qualys Policy Compliance Helps You Adopt NIST AI RMF 1.0

February 2025

  1. Independent Analyst Firm: Qualys Recognized as a Leader in Attack Surface Management
  2. Defense Lessons From the Black Basta Ransomware Playbook
  3. Qualys TotalCloud KCS Achieves Red Hat Vulnerability Scanner Certification
  4. From Vulnerability Scanning to Risk Management: The Complete VMDR Advantage
  5. Streamline Security: Automate Database Compliance with Qualys Cloud Agent
  6. Securing Dynamic Cloud Environments: Best Practices for Comprehensive Scanning
  7. Qualys TRU Discovers Two Vulnerabilities in OpenSSH: CVE-2025-26465 & CVE-2025-26466
  8. Qualys Adds Threat Intelligence for Typosquatting and Defamatory Domains to External Attack Surface Management
  9. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, February 2025 Security Update Review
  10. What is Cloud Scanning, and Why Does It Matter?
  11. The Impact of LLMs on Cybersecurity: New Threats and Solutions
  12. AI and Data Privacy: Mitigating Risks in the Age of Generative AI Tools
  13. Must have AI Security Policies for Enterprises: A Detailed Guide
  14. LLM Security 101: Protecting Large Language Models from Cyber Threats
  15. Qualys Unveils mROC: The Industry’s First Managed Risk Operation Center To Help Partners Scale Risk Management Services
  16. Qualys TotalAppSec Delivers AI-powered Unified Application Risk Management for Modern Web Apps and APIs
  17. DeepSeek Failed Over Half of the Jailbreak Tests by Qualys TotalAI

January 2025

  1. Securing AI Innovation: Enterprise Strategies for LLM and Generative AI Security
  2. Unlock the Boardroom with Cyber Risk: How the Qualys Enterprise TruRisk™ Platform Empowers CISOs
  3. Oracle Critical Patch Update, January 2025 Security Update Review
  4. Mass Campaign of Murdoc Botnet Mirai: A New Variant of Corona Mirai
  5. How to Mitigate risk of CVE-2025-21307 Before the Weekend Without a Patch
  6. Top 6 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2025 and Navigating the Threat Landscape
  7. Enhancing Certificate Management with Qualys CertView: Automated Renewal and Awareness
  8. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, January 2025 Security Update Review
  9. Achieving ROI with Qualys Patch Management: A Secure, Efficient, and Cost-Effective Approach

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December 2024

  1. Securing Cloud Environments Against Potential Extortion Threats
  2. Comprehensive Steps to TruRisk™: From Insight to Action Using VMDR
  3. NotLockBit: A Deep Dive Into the New Ransomware Threat
  4. Qualys VMDR 2024 Updates You Should Know
  5. Apache Struts CVE-2024-53677: File Upload Vulnerability, Impact, and Mitigation Strategies
  6. Qualys Performance Tuning Series: Removing Stale Compliance Data for Optimal Performance
  7. Qualys Achieves 100% Detection in the 2024 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations for Enterprise
  8. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, December 2024 Security Update Review
  9. Qualys Develop from LLM Scanning to TotalAI Security
  10. Protect Your Generative Investments: Qualys Enhances TruRisk Platform with TotalAI for LLM Security
  11. Proactively Managing High-Risk Vulnerabilities with TruRisk Mitigate™

November 2024

  1. Strengthen Cyber Defense with Qualys Advanced Hunting
  2. OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications 2025: Key Changes in AI Security
  3. Qualys TRU Uncovers Five Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities in needrestart
  4. Best Practices for Cloud Security Compliance
  5. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, November 2024 Security Update Review
  6. QScanner: Features, Benefits, and How It Works for Container Image Scanning
  7. Qualys WAS Named a Leader in 2024 GigaOm Radar Report for Application Security Testing

October 2024

  1. Qualys Announcing TotalCloud Attack Path, Cloud Workflow Automation, and Streamlined 3-Step User Onboarding for CNAPP
  2. The Revamped Qualys VMDR & Core Apps: Your Ultimate Cyber Defense Partnership for Vulnerability Management and ITSM Integration
  3. Unmasking Lumma Stealer: Analyzing Deceptive Tactics with Fake CAPTCHA
  4. Oracle Critical Patch Update, October 2024 Security Update Review
  5. The Spanish National Security Framework (ENS) is Now Part of the Qualys Enterprise TruRisk™ Platform
  6. Introducing the Enhanced User Interface (UI 4.0) of the Qualys Enterprise TruRisk™ Platform
  7. Announcing TruRisk™ 2.0: Unleashing Next-Level Precision in Cyber Risk Management
  8. Qualys Launches Enterprise TruRisk™ Management: The Industry’s First Cloud-Based Risk Operations Center
  9. The Future of Cybersecurity Risk Management with Qualys TruRisk™ and ROC
  10. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, October 2024 Security Update Review
  11. Qualys VMDR Rated as the Only Leader and Outperformer by Independent Analyst Firm for the Second Consecutive Year
  12. Akira Ransomware Analysis Origins Tactics and Detection Strategies

September 2024

  1. Qualys Ranked as a “Strong Performer” Among Top Vendors in Forrester Wave™ for Attack Surface Management
  2. Unauthenticated RCE in CUPS: Critical Printing System Flaws
  3. Addressing Cloud Identity Risks With TotalCloud CIEM Security
  4. Enhances Cloud-Native Security with Container-Optimized OS Scanning in Google Kubernetes Engine with Qualys
  5. What Is Black Basta Ransomware and How to Mitigate Attack
  6. AWS IMDSv1 Vulnerability Exposed: Insights from TotalCloud
  7. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, September 2024 Security Update Review
  8. Partnering for Security: Qualys Solutions for Microsoft Azure Linux in AKS
  9. Simplifying Azure Cloud Security with Snapshot-Based Scans
  10. Secure Your Business with Qualys’ New Cloud Agent Deployment using Qualys Scanner

August 2024

  1. TotalCloud Insights: When Multi-Factor Authentication Turns Into Single-Factor Authentication
  2. HHS OIG Report Underscores Challenges of Securing the Cloud
  3. Key Takeaways from the 2024 Gartner Cloud Security Report on CNAPP
  4. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, August 2024 Security Update Review
  5. Understanding the Microsoft Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2024-21302)
  6. Subscription Health Dashboard Update: Optimize Deployments and Identify Issues
  7. Cybersecurity Threat Landscape 2024 Midyear Review
  8. De-risk Generative AI: Enterprise TruRisk Platform Advances to Secure AI and LLM Workloads
  9. Enhance Your Cybersecurity Posture: Qualys Tackles CISA & NSA’s Top 10 Misconfigurations

July 2024

  1. Qualys Announces TruRisk Eliminate to Augment Patching
  2. Secure Your APIs and Minimize Attack Risks with AI-powered API Security in Qualys Web Application Scanning (WAS)
  3. Global Outage Alert: Windows BSOD Crisis Following CrowdStrike Update – Recovery Steps & Qualys Assurance
  4. Oracle Critical Patch Update, July 2024 Security Update Review
  5. How to Detect Issuer Certificates and Comply with Google Chrome’s New Entrust Certificate Policy Using Qualys Certificate View
  6. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, July 2024 Security Update Review
  7. Understanding the Hidden Cyber Risk from Tech Debt and EoL/EoS Security Gaps
  8. Measuring, Communicating, and Eliminating Risk With TruRisk™ in Qualys Web Application Scanning (WAS)
  9. Qualys Blog
  10. Remote Unauthenticated Code Execution Vulnerability in OpenSSH Server (regreSSHion)

June 2024

  1. Understanding the Polyfill.io Supply Chain Attack and Its Impact
  2. Enhancing Application Security Using OWASP Recommendations and Best Practices
  3. Essential Strategies to Secure Your Web Applications and APIs in a Modern Application Development World
  4. Secure Your Containerized Environments with Qualys Containerized Scanner Appliance (QCSA)
  5. TotalCloud Insights: Protect Your AWS Environment by Managing Access Keys Securely
  6. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, June 2024 Security Update Review
  7. Check Point Security Gateway Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CVE-2024-24919)
  8. TotalCloud Insights: Securing Your Data—The Power of Encryption in Preventing Threats
  9. Getting Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 4.0: Navigating the New Compliance Requirements

May 2024

  1. 2024 Cybersecurity Trends: What’s Observable Already?
  2. TotalCloud Insights: Uncovering the Hidden Dangers in Google Cloud Dataproc
  3. Qualys Enterprise TruRisk™ Platform Extends FIM with Real-Time Monitoring of Unauthorized Access to Sensitive Data and Configuration Change Detection on Network Devices
  4. How the Qualys Enterprise TruRisk™ Platform Supports CISA Vulnrichment
  5. TotalCloud Container Security Best Practices
  6. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, May 2024 Security Update Review
  7. Get Weekends Back: Put Chrome CVEs like CVE-2024-5274 on Auto-Patching
  8. TotalCloud Insights: A Wake-Up Call on Cloud Database Security Failure Rates
  9. Elevating Security: Qualys Unveils First Solution for Scanning AWS Bottlerocket in Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS
  10. How to Create Collaboration and Shared Goals with IT and Security Teams
  11. Assess, Remediate, and Prevent the Top 10 MITRE ATT&CK Techniques for Ransomware, Mapped to Misconfigurations
  12. Qualys Is Proud to Sign CISA’s Secure by Design Pledge
  13. Introducing Cyber Asset Management 3.0 With Enhanced Security Assessment
  14. Agentless FIM for Detecting Network Configuration Changes
  15. Qualys Launches MSSP Portal to Support Managed Security Service Providers.
  16. Key Cybersecurity Trends and Insights from Verizon’s 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report

April 2024

  1. CrushFTP Zero-Day Exploitation Due to CVE-2024-4040
  2. ArcaneDoor Attack Exploiting Two Cisco Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
  3. Unveiling the Hidden Power of the CMDB in Cybersecurity
  4. Staying Five Steps Ahead of Cyber Risk
  5. Empowering Small Businesses in the Digital Age: A Must-Read Guide to Web Application & API Security
  6. WordPress LayerSlider Plugin: SQL Injection Vulnerability
  7. Securing Cloud Databases Against SQL Server Lateral Movement Attacks
  8. Oracle Patch Update, April 2024 Security Update Review
  9. How Qualys Supports the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)’s Vulnerability Management Guidance
  10. Navigating the NIS2 Directive and Understanding Its Requirements
  11. WordPress RCE Vulnerability CVE-2024-31210 Puts Websites at Risk
  12. Reduce Supply Chain Risk with Qualys VMDR and Software Composition Analysis
  13. Qualys Endpoint Detection & Response Validated by Top Independent Testing Labs
  14. Real-time File Access Monitoring (FAM) with Qualys FIM
  15. How to Reduce Your Risk with Proactive VM Strategies
  16. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, April 2024 Security Update Review
  17. How a SQL Injection Scanner Can protect Your Website from SQL Injection Vulnerabilities
  18. Key Insights from the NCSC’s Vulnerability Management Guidance

March 2024

  1. XZ Utils SSHd Backdoor
  2. Meeting FISMA (M-24-04) Requirements with a Unified Attack Surface Management Strategy
  3. Combine Qualys TruRisk™ and MITRE ATT&CK to Adopt Threat-Informed Defense to Reduce Risk
  4. Navigating the Changing Landscape of Cybersecurity: Key Trends and Future Insights
  5. De-risking Your Organization in Spite of NVD Delays
  6. Top MITRE ATT&CK Tactics and Techniques Leveraged in 2023
  7. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, March 2024 Security Update Review
  8. Qualys Updates Login Page to Improve User Experience and Highlight Latest Qualys News
  9. Nist CSF 2.0: Everything you need to know about

February 2024

  1. A Comprehensive Guide to the General Personal Data Protection Law (LGPD)
  2. TruRisk™️ Insights – The Story Behind a TruRisk Score
  3. Ransomware Reality Check: Deciphering Priorities in a Sea of Cyber Extortion
  4. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, February 2024 Security Update Review
  5. CSAM Drives Accurate TruRisk Scoring with EoL/EoS, Unauthorized Software, and Missing Security Agents
  6. Announcing TotalCloud™ 2.0 with TruRisk™ Insights: The Future of Cloud and SaaS Security
  7. CSAM Strengthens Attack Surface Coverage and Risk Assessment With Third-Party Connectors
  8. Identify and De-risk Unmanaged, Unauthorized Devices With Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management (CSAM)

January 2024

  1. Qualys Patch Management: A Review of New Features in 2023 for Faster Elimination of Cyber Risk
  2. Qualys TRU Discovers Important Vulnerabilities in GNU C Library’s syslog()
  3. Advancing Cybersecurity Management With Qualys Cloud Agent
  4. Cybersecurity Must De-Risk the Business
  5. Upgrade to New UI of Qualys Web Application Scanning (WAS): Bringing You Enhanced Web Application Security
  6. Qualys WAS Unveils New Features in an Upgraded User Interface
  7. Announcing the Newest Game-Changing Upgrades of Qualys Cloud Agent
  8. Reduce Risk Faster With the Qualys Risk Reduction Recommendation Report
  9. Oracle Patch Update, January 2024 Security Update Review
  10. Detect and Manage the Risk of Apache Struts (CVE-2023-50164) Comprehensively
  11. TotalCloud Insights: Crafting Effective Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) for Sub-domain Takeover Risk Detection
  12. Dual Zero-Day Threats in Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure Gateways – CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887
  13. Facebook Job Scam
  14. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, January 2024 Security Update Review
  15. Qualys and Microsoft Sunset Embedded Integration of Qualys Solutions for Microsoft Defender for Cloud

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December 2023

  1. Yet Another Apache Struts 2 Vulnerability – CVE-2023-50164
  2. SSH Attack Surface (CVE-2023-48795): Find and Patch With CyberSecurity Asset Management Before the Grinch Arrives
  3. 2023 Threat Landscape Year in Review: If Everything Is Critical, Nothing Is
  4. TotalCloud Insights: Hidden Risks of Amazon S3 Misconfigurations
  5. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, December 2023 Security Update Review
  6. Building an AppSec Program with Qualys WAS – Additional Configurations and Review & Confirm
  7. An Easy and Effective Strategy To Shield Your Business From Ransomware
  8. OpenCMS Unauthenticated XXE Vulnerability (CVE-2023-42344)
  9. Building an AppSec Program with Qualys WAS -Introduction and Configuring a Web Application or API: Default Scan Settings

November 2023

  1. Closing the Visibility Gap: How Qualys Cloud Agent Passive Sensor (CAPS) Eliminates Blind Spots Without the Hassle
  2. Unveiling the Deceptive Dance: Phobos Ransomware Masquerading As VX-Underground
  3. Atlassian Confluence Broken Access Control Vulnerability (CVE-2023-22515)
  4. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, November 2023 Security Update Review
  5. QSC23 – Qualys Announces a Directional Shift to Measure, Communicate, and Eliminate Cyber Risk with New Platform and Solutions
  6. De-risking in Practice: How Qualys Customers are Driving Value in Their Organizations
  7. Leveraging AI-informed Cybersecurity to Measure, Communicate, and Eliminate Cyber Risk
  8. Effectively Measure, Communicate, and Eliminate Cloud Risks with TotalCloud
  9. Cybersecurity at a Crossroads: New Implications on Business Risk
  10. Understanding CVSS v4 and everything you need to know
  11. Explaining the Business Value of Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Platform to Your Leadership

October 2023

  1. Qualys API Best Practices: Policy Compliance – Posture Streaming (PCRS) API
  2. PCI DSS 4.0: How to Ensure Full Compliance with New Requirements
  3. Qualys API Best Practices: Web Application Scanning API
  4. Safeguard Your Organization this Holiday Season with Endpoint Security from Qualys
  5. Building an AppSec Program with Qualys WAS – Configuring a Web Application or API: Crawl Settings
  6. Qualys Named a Leader in KuppingerCole CSPM Report
  7. Oracle Patch Tuesday, October 2023 Security Update Review
  8. Critical Cisco 0day Exploited – Do you have Blind Spots in your Risk Management?
  9. Building an AppSec Program with Qualys WAS – Introduction
  10. Assess Open-Source Software Vulnerabilities and Risks
  11. Qualys FIM Playbook for PCI 4.0
  12. How does Qualys TotalCloud prevent secret leaks for Containers?
  13. CVE-2023-44487 HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Attack
  14. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, October 2023 Security Update Review
  15. The Qualys Security Conference Mumbai: That’s a Wrap!
  16. Curl 8.4.0 – Proactively Identifying Potential Vulnerable Assets
  17. Achieving DORA Compliance with Qualys: A Comprehensive Approach
  18. PCI DSS 4.0 FIM Requirements Simplified with Qualys File Integrity Monitoring
  19. CVE-2023-4911: Looney Tunables – Local Privilege Escalation in the glibc’s ld.so

September 2023

  1. Latest Trend in Mac Vulnerabilities and How to Efficiently Address Them
  2. Qualys Named a Market Leader in GigaOm Radar Report for Application Security Testing
  3. Mitigating Risk with Custom First-Party Software and Application Components: A CISOs’ Guide
  4. Qualys Survey of Top 10 Exploited Vulnerabilities in 2023
  5. The MGM Cybersecurity Breach: Learnings and Prevention Measures
  6. Qualys Is the Outperformer in the New GigaOm Radar Report for Continuous Vulnerability Management
  7. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, September 2023 Security Update Review
  8. Risk Fact #5: Keeping the Pace of Remediation at Cloud Scale Requires Automation
  9. Qualys Top 20 Most Exploited Vulnerabilities

August 2023

  1. Elevate Your Security Posture: Implementing CIS Top 18 Controls Through Qualys Cloud Platform
  2. Risk Fact #4: Malware in your Cloud means Exploitation is underway
  3. Qualys Tackles 2022’s Top Routinely Exploited Cyber Vulnerabilities
  4. Risk Fact #3: External-Facing Vulnerabilities Cloud Security Research Risk Fact
  5. Part III: Implementing Effective Cyber Security Metrics that Reduce Risk Realistically
  6. Risk Fact #2: Weaponized Vulnerabilities Cloud Security Research Risk Fact
  7. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, August 2023 Security Update Review
  8. Ensuring Compliance with DORA: How Qualys Solutions Can Help
  9. Qualys Expands Cloud Platform for First-Party Application Risk Detection and Remediation
  10. Beating the Challenge of Cloud Detection and Response with Qualys TotalCloud Deep Learning AI
  11. Risk Fact #1: Cloud Migration Exploitation Cloud Security Research Risk Fact

July 2023

  1. Part II: Implementing Effective Cyber Security Metrics that Reduce Risk Realistically
  2. Who Protects PII – Consumers or Companies?
  3. Add Unique Asset Context with Custom Attributes in CSAM
  4. Part I: Implementing Effective Cyber Security Metrics That Reduce Risk Realistically
  5. Oracle Patch Tuesday, July 2023 Security Update Review
  6. CVE-2023-38408: Remote Code Execution in OpenSSH’s forwarded ssh-agent
  7. Part 2: An In-Depth Look at the Latest Vulnerability Threat Landscape (Attackers’ Edition)
  8. Evaluate Your Windows Endpoints for Storm-0978 Activity With Qualys Endpoint Security
  9. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, July 2023 Security Update Review
  10. Part 1: An In-Depth Look at the Latest Vulnerability Threat Landscape
  11. How Qualys Drives PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance for File Integrity Monitoring
  12. Qualys Performance Tuning Series: Qualys Cloud Agent Configuration Best Practice

June 2023

  1. Supporting Our U.S. Federal Customers for BOD 23–02 by Mitigating the Risk From Internet-Exposed Management Interfaces
  2. Qualys Responds to CISA Alert: Binding Operational Directive 23-02
  3. CVSSv4 Public Preview Announcement
  4. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, June 2023 Security Update Review
  5. Empower Your Security Team With Our Robust Script Library
  6. Progress MOVEit Transfer Vulnerability Being Actively Exploited
  7. Behind the Screen: Three Vulnerabilities in RenderDoc
  8. TotalCloud Empowered with CloudView Integration

May 2023

  1. Qualys Gateway Service now available in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Marketplaces
  2. New Strain of Sotdas Malware Discovered
  3. Adopting an Effective and Easy To Implement Zero Trust Architecture
  4. New TSA Cybersecurity Emergency Action Rule Impacts Cybersecurity and Compliance
  5. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, May 2023 Security Update Review

April 2023

  1. Qualys Virtual Cyber Risk Summit: That’s a Wrap!
  2. Qualys Launches Inaugural Cyber Risk Summit to Share Expert Insights
  3. Qualys Security Solutions Now Support Alibaba Cloud
  4. Oracle Patch Tuesday April 2023 Security Update Review
  5. Qualys Security Updates: Cloud Agent for Windows and Mac
  6. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday April 2023 Security Update Review
  7. 3CXDesktopApp Backdoored in a Suspected Lazarus Campaign
  8. Augment Security Asset Tagging with Custom Assessment and Remediation (CAR)
  9. Risk Fact #5: Infrastructure Misconfigurations Open the Door to Ransomware

March 2023

  1. Risk Fact #4: Misconfigurations Still Prevalent in Web Applications
  2. Risk-based Vulnerability Management Combined With A Cyber Risk Management Platform
  3. Risk Fact #3: Initial Access Brokers Attack What Organizations Ignore
  4. Risk Fact #2: Automation Is the Difference Between Success and Failure
  5. Risk Fact #1: Speed Is the Key to Out-Maneuvering Adversaries
  6. ACSC Essential 8 Cybersecurity Strategies, Maturity Levels, and Best Practices
  7. A New Approach to Discover, Monitor, and Reduce Your Modern Web Attack Surface
  8. Staying Ahead of Ransomware Threats
  9. The March 2023 Patch Tuesday Security Update Review
  10. Qualys VMDR & Jira Integration Now Available

February 2023

  1. What’s Next After Log4Shell?
  2. Automating Vulnerability Management with Qualys VMDR & ServiceNow
  3. Forta GoAnywhere Zero-Day Exploited By Threat Actors
  4. The February 2023 Patch Tuesday Security Update Review
  5. Don’t forget about risk remediation of your macOS assets
  6. Real-Time Defense of Multi-Cloud Environments From Malicious Attacks and Threats
  7. Announcing General Availability of Qualys TotalCloud
  8. What Is Blind SQL Injection? Content-Based and Time-Based Approaches
  9. Introducing Enterprise TruRisk Management from Qualys
  10. Launching Qualys Cloud Threat Database
  11. Ransomware Targets Outdated VMware ESXi Hypervisors: Protect Your Systems Now!
  12. macOS Patching Is Here!
  13. Is your FIM Solution Cost and Time Efficient?
  14. CVE-2023-25136: Pre-Auth Double Free Vulnerability in OpenSSH Server 9.1

January 2023

  1. Why FedRAMP High Authorization Can Ensure High Cybersecurity Maturity
  2. Managing Security Configuration Risk with the Most Comprehensive Configuration Compliance Solution!
  3. The January 2023 Oracle Critical Patch Update
  4. Detection of Vulnerabilities in JavaScript Libraries
  5. The January 2023 Patch Tuesday Security Update Review
  6. Driving CISA Compliance with Qualys
  7. Implement Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with Qualys TruRisk™: Part 3
  8. BitRAT Now Sharing Sensitive Bank Data as a Lure

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December 2022

  1. Qualys Threat Research Unit: Threat Thursdays, December 2022
  2. Implement Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with Qualys TruRisk™ : Part 2
  3. The December 2022 Patch Tuesday Security Update Review
  4. Dissecting the Empire C2 Framework
  5. Implement Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with Qualys TruRisk™ : Part 1
  6. The 9th Google Chrome Zero-Day Threat this Year – Again Just Before the Weekend
  7. Identify Server-Side Attacks Using Qualys Periscope
  8. Effective Vulnerability Management with Stakeholder Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC) and Qualys TruRisk

November 2022

  1. Snapd Race Condition Vulnerability in snap-confine’s must_mkdir_and_open_with_perms() (CVE-2022-3328)
  2. Qualys Broadens Security Offerings for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
  3. Don’t Spend Your Holiday Season Patching Chrome
  4. Ease Your Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Journey With Qualys
  5. QSC 2022: That’s a Wrap!
  6. QSC 2022: Listening to the Voice of the Customer
  7. QSC 2022: Qualys’ Threat Research Unit (TRU) – Our Shield Is Your Shield
  8. QSC 2022 Day 1 Recap: Qualys Gives Organizations More Security in an Ever-Expanding Threat Landscape
  9. QSC 2022 Kickoff: Quantifying and Qualifying Digital Cyber Risks
  10. November 2022 Patch Tuesday | Microsoft Releases 65 New Vulnerabilities With 10 Critical; Adobe Releases Zero Advisories (for the First Time in Six Years).
  11. Get Your Patch Tuesday Vulnerabilities Patched on Tuesday
  12. OpenSSL Vulnerability Recap
  13. Why Is Snapshot Scanning Not Enough?
  14. Introducing TotalCloud – Cloud Security Simplified

October 2022

  1. Qualys Research Alert: OpenSSL 3.0.7 – What You Need To Know
  2. Don’t spend another weekend patching Chrome
  3. Qualys Research Team: Threat Thursdays, October 2022
  4. Text4Shell: Detect, Prioritize and Remediate The Risk Across On-premise, Cloud, Container Environment Using Qualys Platform
  5. Fingerprinting Web Applications and APIs using Qualys Web Application Scanning
  6. Leeloo Multipath: Authorization bypass and symlink attack in multipathd (CVE-2022-41974 and CVE-2022-41973)
  7. CVE-2022-42889: Detect Text4Shell via Qualys Container Security
  8. CISA BOD 23-01: Meeting and Exceeding CISA Requirements with Qualys
  9. Not Your Average FIM: Why Customers Choose Qualys FIM
  10. Creating Awareness of External JavaScript Libraries in Web Applications
  11. Award-winning Qualys Vulnerability and Compliance Solution now available on IBM zSystems & LinuxONE Page
  12. JSON Web Token (JWT) Weaknesses
  13. October 2022 Patch Tuesday | Microsoft Releases 84 Vulnerabilities With 13 Critical, Plus 12 Microsoft Edge (Chromium-Based); Adobe Releases 4 Advisories, 29 Vulnerabilities With 17 Critical.
  14. In-Depth Look Into Data-Driven Science Behind Qualys TruRisk
  15. NSA Alert: Topmost CVEs Actively Exploited By People’s Republic of China State-Sponsored Cyber Actors
  16. Qualys Performance Tuning Series: Remove Stale Assets for Best Performance
  17. Automatically Discover, Patch, and Remediate WhatsApp Vulnerabilities Using Qualys VMDR Mobile

September 2022

  1. Qualys Response to ProxyNotShell Microsoft Exchange Server Zero-Day Threat Using Qualys Cloud Platform
  2. Spelunking Your Qualys Data with Splunk
  3. Qualys Research Team: Threat Thursdays, September 2022
  4. Remediate Your Vulnerable Lenovo Systems with Qualys Custom Assessment and Remediation
  5. Optimizing a Web Application Security Scan for bWAPP
  6. Prepare Your Organization for Compliance with the NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation
  7. Why Organizations Struggle with Patch Management (and What to Do about It)
  8. September 2022 Patch Tuesday | Microsoft Releases 63 Vulnerabilities With 5 Critical, Plus 16 Microsoft Edge (Chromium-Based); Adobe Releases 7 Advisories, 63 Vulnerabilities With 35 Critical.
  9. Let Smart Automation Reduce the Risk of Zero-Day Attacks on Third-Party Applications
  10. Introducing Qualys Threat Research Thursdays

August 2022

  1. An End-to-End Approach to Next-Gen Security for Web Applications & APIs
  2. Mitigating the Risk of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities by using Compensating Controls
  3. Qualys VMDR Recognized as Best VM Solution by SC Awards 2022, Leader by GigaOm, and #1 in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management by G2.com
  4. Atlassian Confluence: Questions for Confluence App Hardcoded Credentials Vulnerability (CVE-2022-26138)
  5. AsyncRAT C2 Framework: Overview, Technical Analysis & Detection
  6. Qualys Security Updates: Cloud Agent for Linux
  7. August 2022 Patch Tuesday | Microsoft Releases 121 Vulnerabilities With 17 Critical, Plus 20 Microsoft Edge (Chromium-Based); Adobe Releases 5 Advisories, 25 Vulnerabilities With 15 Critical.
  8. Your 2026 Guide to Qualys and ServiceNow Integrations: What’s New, What Matters, and What to Use
  9. A Deep Dive into VMDR 2.0 with Qualys TruRisk™
  10. Qualys API Best Practices: CyberSecurity Asset Management API
  11. Introducing CyberSecurity Asset Management 2.0 with Natively Integrated External Attack Surface Management
  12. Here’s a Simple Script to Detect the Stealthy Nation-State BPFDoor

July 2022

  1. New Qualys Research Report: Evolution of Quasar RAT
  2. Attack Surface Management: a Critical Pillar of Cybersecurity Asset Management
  3. Join Qualys at Black Hat USA 2022!
  4. Aflac Reduces Critical Vulnerabilities by 55% with Qualys VMDR 2.0 with TruRisk
  5. Integrating JIRA to the Qualys Cloud Platform
  6. Use Qualys ­­Flow to Automate Detection & Remediation with No-code Workflows
  7. July 2022 Patch Tuesday | Microsoft Releases 84 Vulnerabilities With 4 Critical, Plus 2 Microsoft Edge (Chromium-Based); Adobe Releases 4 Advisories, 27 Vulnerabilities With 18 Critical.
  8. About CMDB Sync Integration with Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management
  9. How to Quickly Prioritize Risks with VMDR 2.0 and Orchestrate Response with CMDB & ITSM Integration

June 2022

  1. Atlassian Confluence OGNL Injection Remote Code Execution (RCE) Vulnerability (CVE-2022-26134)
  2. How Risk-Based Remediation Drives Smarter Vulnerability Management with Qualys VMDR 2.0
  3. Defending Against Scheduled Task Attacks in Windows Environments
  4. New Qualys Research Report: Inside a Redline InfoStealer Campaign
  5. Detect the Follina MSDT Vulnerability (CVE-2022-30190) with Qualys Multi-Vector EDR
  6. June 2022 Patch Tuesday | Microsoft Releases 55 Vulnerabilities With 3 Critical; Adobe Releases 6 Advisories, 46 Vulnerabilities With 40 Critical.
  7. Close the Gap Between IT & Security with Our New App: Qualys VMDR for ITSM
  8. Introducing Qualys VMDR 2.0

May 2022

  1. Qualys FIM: Be Compliance Ready with Intuitive, Ready-to-Use File Monitoring Profiles
  2. Put SecOps in the Driver’s Seat with Custom Assessment and Remediation
  3. Upgrade Your FIM Program to Detect Risk and Streamline Compliance
  4. May 2022 Patch Tuesday | Microsoft Releases 75 Vulnerabilities With 8 Critical; Adobe Releases 5 Advisories, 18 Vulnerabilities With 16 Critical.
  5. Ursnif Malware Banks on News Events for Phishing Attacks
  6. CISA Alert: Top 15 Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities
  7. Ransomware Insights from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report

April 2022

  1. Assessing Certificate Risk with Qualys VMDR
  2. Implications of Windows Subsystem for Linux for Adversaries & Defenders (Part 2)
  3. April 2022 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Releases 145 Vulnerabilities With 10 Critical; Adobe Releases 4 Advisories, 78 Vulnerabilities With 51 Critical.
  4. The Evolution of EDR: Why Multi-Vector EDR is the Future of EDR Security

March 2022

  1. Qualys Multi-Vector EDR Excels in 2022 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation
  2. Spring Framework Zero-Day Remote Code Execution (Spring4Shell) Vulnerability
  3. Implications of Windows Subsystem for Linux for Adversaries & Defenders (Part 1)
  4. Infographic: Log4Shell Vulnerability Impact by the Numbers
  5. Qualys Study Reveals How Enterprises Responded to Log4Shell
  6. Casdoor SQL Injection (CVE-2022-24124)
  7. March 2022 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Releases 92 Vulnerabilities With 3 Critical; Adobe Releases 3 Advisories, 6 Vulnerabilities With 5 Critical.
  8. AvosLocker Ransomware Behavior Examined on Windows & Linux
  9. Ukrainian Targets Hit by HermeticWiper, New Datawiper Malware

February 2022

  1. Russia-Ukraine Crisis: How to Strengthen Your Security Posture to Protect against Cyber Attack, based on CISA Guidelines
  2. Meet FedRAMP Compliance with Qualys Cloud Platform
  3. Enhanced Native DNS based Scanning with Qualys VMDR
  4. Managing CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities with Qualys VMDR
  5. Oh Snap! More Lemmings: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Discovered in snap-confine (CVE-2021-44731)
  6. The Unbearable Lightness of Unaudited Supply Chains
  7. Microsoft & Adobe Patch Tuesday (February 2022) – Microsoft 70 Vulnerabilities with 0 Critical; Adobe 17 Vulnerabilities with 5 Critical
  8. LolZarus: Lazarus Group Incorporating Lolbins into Campaigns
  9. Catching the RAT called Agent Tesla
  10. Vulnerability Remediation: It’s Not Just Patching

January 2022

  1. Simplifying Cloud Asset Identification in a Multi-Cloud Environment
  2. PwnKit: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Discovered in polkit’s pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)
  3. The Chaos Ransomware Can Be Ravaging
  4. Automating Agent-less Vulnerability Assessment for Intune Enrolled Mobile Devices
  5. Microsoft & Adobe Patch Tuesday (January 2022) – Microsoft 126 Vulnerabilities with 9 Critical, Adobe 41 Vulnerabilities, 22 critical
  6. How to Make Log4Shell Remediation Quick & Effective
  7. Emotet Re-emerges with Help from TrickBot
  8. Mitigation of Supply Chain Risks in Microsoft 365

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December 2021

  1. Log4Shell – Follow This Multi-Layered Approach for Detection and Remediation
  2. How to Discover Log4Shell Vulnerabilities in Running Containers & Images
  3. Qualys Integrates with Shodan to Help Map the External Attack Surface
  4. New Options Profiles for Log4Shell Detection
  5. 6 Ways to Quickly Detect a Log4Shell Exploit in Your Environment
  6. Out-of-Band Detection for Log4Shell
  7. Is Your Web Application Exploitable By Log4Shell Vulnerability?
  8. Log4Shell Exploit Detection and Response with Qualys Multi-Vector EDR
  9. Microsoft & Adobe Patch Tuesday (December 2021) – Microsoft 83 Vulnerabilities With 7 Critical, 1 Actively Exploited. Adobe 60 Vulnerabilities, 28 Critical.
  10. Developing a Repeatable and Sustainable Security Exploitable Risk Reporting Program
  11. Apache Log4j Zero Day Threat: CVE-2021-44228 Detection and Response
  12. RANSOMWARE: Ranzy Locker

November 2021

  1. Euronet Worldwide: Speedy, Global Response to Threats Reduces Risk
  2. Conti Ransomware
  3. QSC Day 1 Recap: As Threats Intensify, Qualys Helps Organizations Shore Up Security
  4. Security Automation Critical to the Digital Journey
  5. Microsoft & Adobe Patch Tuesday (November 2021) – Microsoft 55 Vulnerabilities with 6 Critical, 6 Zero-Days. Adobe 4 Vulnerabilities
  6. Qualys Response to CISA Alert: Binding Operational Directive 22-01
  7. CSPM Evolution – Start Secure, Stay Secure

October 2021

  1. Apache HTTP Server Path Traversal & Remote Code Execution (CVE-2021-41773 & CVE-2021-42013)
  2. Apache Tomcat HTTP Request Smuggling Vulnerability (CVE-2021-33037)
  3. Vulnerability On-Demand Search Reporting & Easy Download options
  4. Apple fixes zero-day in iOS and iPadOS 15.0.2 emergency release: Detect and Prioritize Vulnerabilities using VMDR for Mobile Devices
  5. Microsoft & Adobe Patch Tuesday (October 2021) – Microsoft 74 Vulnerabilities with 3 Critical, 4 Zero-Days. Adobe 10 Vulnerabilities
  6. Tenacity 2.0 – Emulating Threat groups
  7. From Technical Features to Customer Security Metrics
  8. The Rise of Ransomware
  9. Assess Your Risk From Ransomware Attacks, Powered by Qualys Research

September 2021

  1. QID Spotlight: Discover Azul Java Vulnerabilities
  2. NSO Pegasus iPhone Spyware Vulnerabilities Fixed by Apple – Detect & Prioritize Using VMDR for Mobile Devices
  3. Prioritize Remediation with a Perceived-Risk Approach to Strengthen CyberSecurity Effectiveness
  4. Apache Struts 2 Double OGNL Evaluation Vulnerability (CVE-2020-17530)
  5. Improving Cybersecurity Practices by Managing the Asset Lifecycle
  6. Detect & Prioritize NSO Pegasus iPhone Spyware Vulnerabilities Using VMDR for Mobile Devices
  7. Google Android September 2021 Security Patch Vulnerabilities: Discover and Take Remote Response Action Using VMDR for Mobile Devices
  8. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday (September 2021) – Microsoft 60 Vulnerabilities with 3 Critical, Adobe 61 Vulnerabilities
  9. Optimize Vulnerability Remediation with Proactive Zero-Touch Patch

August 2021

  1. Google Android August 2021 Security Patch Vulnerabilities: Discover and Take Remote Response Action Using VMDR for Mobile Devices
  2. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday (August 2021) – Microsoft 51 Vulnerabilities with 7 Critical, Adobe 29 Vulnerabilities
  3. Tenacity – An Adversary Emulation Tool for Persistence
  4. Qualys Research Wins Two 2021 Pwnie Awards
  5. Securing Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS in Red Hat OpenShift with Qualys
  6. Qualys Research Nominated for Pwnie Awards 2021

July 2021

  1. Top Black Hat USA Sessions for Qualys Customers
  2. CISA Alert: Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities
  3. iOS and iPadOS 14.7 and 14.7.1 Security Update: Discover Vulnerabilities and Take Remote Response Action Using VMDR for Mobile Devices
  4. Protect your Devices from Pegasus Spyware using VMDR for Mobile Devices’ Proactive Approach
  5. CVE-2021-33910: Denial of Service (Stack Exhaustion) in systemd (PID 1)
  6. Sequoia: A Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Linux’s Filesystem Layer (CVE-2021-33909)
  7. Google Android July 2021 Security Patch Vulnerabilities: Discover and Take Remote Response Action Using VMDR for Mobile Devices
  8. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday (July 2021) – Microsoft 117 Vulnerabilities with 13 Critical, Adobe 26 Vulnerabilities
  9. Qualys API Best Practices: Host List Detection API
  10. Kaseya REvil Ransomware Attack (CVE-2021-30116) – Automatically Discover and Prioritize Using Qualys VMDR®
  11. Analyzing the REvil Ransomware Attack
  12. Microsoft Windows Print Spooler RCE Vulnerability (PrintNightmare-CVE-2021-34527) – Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Using Qualys VMDR®

June 2021

  1. DarkSide Ransomware
  2. Microsoft & Adobe Patch Tuesday (June 2021) – Microsoft 50 Vulnerabilities with 5 Critical, Adobe 21 Critical Vulnerabilities

May 2021

  1. Monitor Windows Registry Changes with Qualys File Integrity Monitoring
  2. Reinforce Defense with File Reputation and Trusted Source Intelligence in Qualys FIM
  3. Reinventing Cybersecurity Asset Management
  4. Introducing CyberSecurity Asset Management
  5. Nefilim Ransomware
  6. Microsoft & Adobe Patch Tuesday (May 2021) – Qualys covers 85 Vulnerabilities, 26 Critical
  7. Google Android May 2021 Security Patch Vulnerabilities: Discover and Take Remote Response Action Using VMDR for Mobile Devices
  8. 21Nails: Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities in Exim Mail Server
  9. The Convergence of Endpoint Protection with Detection & Response

April 2021

  1. iOS / iPadOS 14.5 Updates: Identify Assets Requiring Update and Take Remote Action with VMDR for Mobile Devices
  2. WhatsApp Vulnerabilities: Automatically Discover and Remediate Using VMDR for Mobile Devices
  3. Manage Linux Patching with Qualys VMDR
  4. April 2021 Patch Tuesday – 108 Vulnerabilities, 19 Critical, Adobe
  5. Qualys API Best Practices: Host List API
  6. Introducing “This Month in Patches” Webinar Series
  7. Google Android April 2021 Security Patch Vulnerabilities: Discover and Take Remote Response Action Using VMDR for Mobile Devices
  8. No Auth, Seamless Database Security and Compliance
  9. Qualys Update on Accellion FTA Security Incident
  10. Assessing Mainframe Compliance While Minimizing Operational Impact

March 2021

  1. Extending your FedRAMP Program to Container Infrastructure with the Qualys Cloud Platform
  2. Unified Dashboard Preview for Enhanced Security Visualization
  3. Qualys Leadership Update: Moving Forward Together
  4. Security Advisory: Mitigating the Risk of Microsoft Exchange Zero-Day ProxyLogon Vulnerabilities
  5. March 2021 Patch Tuesday – 82 Vulnerabilities, 10 Critical, Adobe
  6. Microsoft Exchange Server Zero-Days (ProxyLogon) – Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Using Qualys VMDR
  7. Qualys API Best Practices: KnowledgeBase API

February 2021

  1. Expand Your Vulnerability & Patch Management Program to Mobile Devices with Qualys VMDR
  2. February 2021 Patch Tuesday – 56 Vulnerabilities, 11 Critical, Adobe
  3. Unified SaaS Application Security, Detection, and Response
  4. Unpacking the CVEs in the FireEye Breach – Start Here First

January 2021

  1. CVE-2021-3156: Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in Sudo (Baron Samedit)
  2. Dive Deep into VMDR
  3. The Evolution of the Qualys Cloud Platform
  4. Building an Open Cloud Platform
  5. Unified Vulnerability View of Unauthenticated and Agent Scans
  6. January 2021 Patch Tuesday – 83 Vulnerabilities, 10 Critical, One Zero Day, Adobe
  7. Technical Deep Dive Into SolarWinds Breach

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December 2020

  1. Qualys Security Advisory: SolarWinds / FireEye
  2. Adobe Flash Player Reaches End of Life on December 31, 2020
  3. Solorigate/Sunburst : FireEye Breach Leveraged SolarWinds Orion Software
  4. Support Live Chat
  5. QID Spotlight: Enhanced Oracle Java Discovery
  6. Solorigate/Sunburst : Theft of Cybersecurity Tools | FireEye Breach
  7. December 2020 Patch Tuesday – 58 Vulnerabilities, 9 Critical, Windows Exchange, Hyper-V, SharePoint, Adobe

November 2020

  1. Qualys Research Nominated for Pwnie Awards 2020
  2. An End-to-End Approach to Next-Gen Web Application and API Security
  3. Securing Containers in Google Cloud Artifact Registry with Qualys
  4. A Modern Approach to Risk Management and Compliance
  5. EDR Solutions Require Comprehensive Telemetry to Fend Off Multi-Vector Attacks
  6. November 2020 Patch Tuesday – 112 Vulnerabilities, 17 Critical, Windows Codecs, Network File System, Workstation, Adobe

October 2020

  1. NSA Alert: Chinese State-Sponsored Actors Exploit Known Vulnerabilities
  2. Qualys Policy Compliance Plugin for Jenkins Now Available
  3. Auto-Discover and Secure Middleware Instances in Your Environment
  4. Microsoft Windows TCP/IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-16898) – Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Using Qualys VMDR®
  5. Discover A10 Networks Advanced Core OS Vulnerabilities using Qualys VMDR
  6. October 2020 Patch Tuesday – 87 Vulnerabilities, 11 Critical, SharePoint, TCP/IP Stack, Graphics, Adobe Vulns
  7. Instrument VMware Virtual Machines for Security and Compliance
  8. Detecting HTTP Request Smuggling with Qualys WAS

September 2020

  1. PAN-OS Critical Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CVE-2020-2040) – Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Using Qualys VMDR®
  2. Vulnerability Detection Pipeline
  3. Microsoft Netlogon Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472 – Zerologon) – Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Using Qualys VMDR®
  4. Discover Gentoo Linux Vulnerabilities using Qualys VMDR
  5. September 2020 Patch Tuesday – 129 Vulnerabilities, 23 Critical, SharePoint, Exchange, Windows Codecs, Adobe Vulns
  6. Detect FritzFrog and Other Malware Infections with Inventory Data
  7. Discover EulerOS Vulnerabilities using Qualys VMDR

August 2020

  1. Meow Attack: A Reminder for Organizations to Identify and Secure Their Databases
  2. Automated Discovery and Assessment of PaaS Databases with Lambda Service for Qualys Policy Compliance
  3. August 2020 Patch Tuesday – 120 Vulnerabilities, 17 Critical, Media Foundation, Windows Codecs, Workstation, Adobe
  4. Continuous Monitoring and Beyond
  5. Join us at Black Hat USA 2020!
  6. GRUB2 Boothole Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CVE-2020-10713) – Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Using Qualys VMDR®

July 2020

  1. Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Windows DNS Vulnerability (SigRed – CVE-2020-1350) Using Qualys VMDR®
  2. July 2020 Patch Tuesday – 123 Vulnerabilities, 18 Critical, Hyper-V RemoteFX, DNS Server, Workstation, Adobe
  3. F5 BIG-IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-5902)
  4. Add Ergonomic Security to Your CI/CD Pipeline

June 2020

  1. Ripple20: Multiple Vulnerabilities Identified in Treck TCP/IP Stack
  2. Secure Your Global Remote Workforce
  3. June 2020 Patch Tuesday – 128 Vulns, 11 Critical, Sharepoint, Workstation, Adobe Patches
  4. Product, API & Library Notifications Move to Notifications.qualys.com

May 2020

  1. NSA Announces Sandworm Actors Exploiting Exim MTA Vulnerability (CVE-2019-10149)
  2. The European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2020 – Meet the Finalists
  3. Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2020
  4. May 2020 Patch Tuesday – 111 Vulns, 16 Critical, SharePoint, VS Code, Adobe Patches
  5. Qualys Community Migration to Salesforce Platform

April 2020

  1. April 2020 Patch Tuesday – 113 Vulns, 19 Critical, Zero-Day Patches, SharePoint, Adobe ColdFusion
  2. Secure Remote Endpoints from Vulnerabilities in Video Conferencing & Productivity Applications like Zoom
  3. New Features in Qualys Vulnerability Management and Policy Compliance
  4. Real-Time Alerting and Incident Management for Unauthorized Changes

March 2020

  1. Secure ElasticSearch, Kafka & Other Microservices with Qualys Cloud Platform
  2. Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Windows Adobe Type Manager Library Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (ADV200006) using Qualys VMDR®
  3. How to Install the Qualys Cloud Agent for Remote Workforce
  4. Microsoft Released Out-of-Band Advisory – Windows Adobe Type Manager Library Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (ADV200006)
  5. Cyber Criminals using Coronavirus Fears to Spread Information-Stealing Malware
  6. Qualys Cloud Platform: Continuity of Service in Response to COVID-19
  7. Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Microsoft SMBv3 RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2020-0796) using Qualys VMDR
  8. Automated and Scalable Audit Workflows with Qualys Security Assessment Questionnaire
  9. Microsoft Windows SMBv3 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-0796)
  10. Detect Apache Tomcat AJP File Inclusion Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1938) using Qualys WAS
  11. March 2020 Patch Tuesday – 115 Vulns, 26 Critical, Microsoft Word and Workstation Patches
  12. Identifying Let’s Encrypt Revoked Certificates
  13. Automatically Discover, Prioritize and Remediate Apache Tomcat AJP File Inclusion Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1938) using Qualys VMDR

February 2020

  1. Detections Released for ESU Updates on EOL Windows 7, 2008 and 2008 R2
  2. February 2020 Patch Tuesday – 99 Vulns, 12 Critical, Patch for IE 0-Day, Exchange Vuln, Adobe Vulns
  3. Top 5 Reasons to Attend Qualys Security Conference 2020 San Francisco
  4. New EOL QIDs for Microsoft Windows 7 and 2008/R2
  5. Actionable Searching and Data Download with Vulnerability Management Dashboards

January 2020

  1. OpenBSD OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-7247)
  2. WordPress Database Reset Plugin Vulnerability (CVE-2020-7047, CVE-2020-7048)
  3. Detect Unauthorized Processes Making Changes in Your Environment with Qualys File Integrity Monitoring
  4. LibMiner: Container-Based Cryptocurrency Miner Targeting Unprotected Redis Servers
  5. Introducing Periscope: Out-of-Band Vulnerability Detection Mechanism in Qualys WAS
  6. Microsoft Windows CryptoAPI Spoofing Vulnerability (CVE-2020-0601) – How to Detect and Remediate
  7. January 2020 Patch Tuesday – 50 Vulns, 8 Critical, Adobe Vulns
  8. Citrix ADC and Gateway Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2019-19781)
  9. The New Year Calls for a Change in the OT Industry’s State of Security
  10. Securing Databases with Qualys Policy Compliance

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December 2019

  1. Top 19+ Vulnerability CVEs in Santa’s Dashboard Tracking
  2. Blue is a color we love but can’t Keep!
  3. OpenBSD Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2019-19726)
  4. CVE-2019-11016: Open Redirect Vulnerability
  5. December 2019 Patch Tuesday – 36 Vulns, 7 Critical, Actively Attacked Win32k vuln, Adobe vulns
  6. OpenBSD Multiple Authentication Vulnerabilities
  7. Streamlining and Automating Compliance

November 2019

  1. The Power and Future of the Qualys Cloud Platform
  2. November 2019 Patch Tuesday – 74 vulns, 13 Critical, Actively Attacked IE vuln, Hyper-V escapes, Adobe
  3. BlueKeep Attacks Observed Months after Initial Release

October 2019

  1. 5 Reasons to Attend Qualys Security Conference 2019
  2. PHP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2019-11043)
  3. New & Improved Qualys WAS Burp Extension Now Available
  4. Graboid: Revenge of the Worms
  5. Qualys Vulnerability Signature Release 2.4.722-4 Oracle DB New Feature
  6. October 2019 Patch Tuesday – 59 vulns, 9 Critical, Azure App Service, Remote Desktop Client, PoC for Windows Error Reporting
  7. Enhanced API Scanning with Postman Support in Qualys WAS

September 2019

  1. Microsoft Released Out-of-Band Security Updates – How to Detect and Remediate
  2. Empower your Cloud Ops Teams – Publish Qualys CloudView Security Assessment Reports to their Slack Channel
  3. Assess Vulnerabilities, Misconfigurations in CI/CD Pipeline
  4. September 2019 Patch Tuesday – 79 Vulns, 17 Critical, Remote Desktop Client, SharePoint, Exploited PrivEsc

August 2019

  1. Cisco REST API Container for IOS XE Software Authentication Bypass Vulnerability – (CVE-2019-12643)
  2. FedRAMP ConMon – Efficiently & Effectively Managing SLAs for RA-5d Requirement
  3. Windows Remote Desktop Vulnerabilities (Seven Monkeys) – How to Detect and Patch
  4. August 2019 Patch Tuesday – 93 Vulns, 29 Critical, 7 Remote Desktop Vulns, Hyper-V, DHCP, Adobe vulns
  5. Countdown to Black Hat: Top 10 Sessions to Attend — #9 and #10

July 2019

  1. Countdown to Black Hat: Top 10 Sessions to Attend — #8
  2. Countdown to Black Hat: Top 10 Sessions to Attend — #7
  3. Countdown to Black Hat: Top 10 Sessions to Attend — #6
  4. July 2019 Patch Tuesday – 77 Vulns, 15 Critical, DHCP RCE, Exploited PrivEsc, SQL, Adobe Vulns
  5. Countdown to Black Hat: Top 10 Sessions to Attend — #5
  6. Video Training Update, July 2019
  7. Countdown to Black Hat: Top 10 Sessions to Attend — #4

June 2019

  1. Countdown to Black Hat: Top 10 Sessions to Attend — #3
  2. Countdown to Black Hat: Top 10 Sessions to Attend — #2
  3. Exim MTA Vulnerability (The Return of the WIZard – CVE-2019-10149)
  4. June 2019 Patch Tuesday – 88 Vulns, 21 Critical, Hyper-V Escape, Adobe Vulns
  5. Alpine Docker Image Vulnerability (CVE-2019-5021): How to Detect and Fix
  6. Countdown to Black Hat: Top 10 Sessions to Attend — #1
  7. Integrating Threat and Vulnerability Management with Patch Management: The (Feasible) Quantum Leap
  8. Boosting Patch Management Is Key for Breach Prevention
  9. Third-Party User Enumeration Issue Resolved

May 2019

  1. LinkedIn Faux Pas Shines Light on Certificate Management
  2. Boost Security with These Gartner-Recommended Projects
  3. Windows RDP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (BlueKeep) – How to Detect and Patch
  4. Verizon’s DBIR Highlights Key Drivers of Security Risk
  5. May 2019 Patch Tuesday – 79 Vulns, 22 Critical, RDP RCE, MDS Attacks, Adobe Vulns

April 2019

  1. Zombie POODLE and GOLDENDOODLE Vulnerabilities
  2. Qualys Training Update, April 2019
  3. Monitoring AWS Golden AMI Pipelines with Slack
  4. Ancestry: On the Vanguard of DevOps Security
  5. April 2019 Patch Tuesday – 74 Vulns, 16 Critical, 2 Actively Attacked, 1 PoC Exploit, Adobe Vulns

March 2019

  1. Free Training: New Certified Learning Paths
  2. PCI & SSL/Early TLS QIDs 38601, 42366
  3. Updated Qualys WAS Plugin for Jenkins Now Available
  4. March 2019 Patch Tuesday – 65 Vulns, 18 Critical, RCEs in DHCP Client, Adobe Vulns

February 2019

  1. Know What’s on Your Network at All Times with Qualys Asset Inventory
  2. February 2019 Patch Tuesday – 74 Vulns, 20 Critical, Exchange 0-day, Adobe Vulns
  3. RunC Container Breakout Vulnerability
  4. Assess Vulnerabilities, Misconfigurations in AWS Golden AMI Pipelines

January 2019

  1. Policy Compliance Adds UDC Support for Cloud Agent
  2. mod_ssl Bug and SSL Labs Renegotiation Test
  3. Detecting Insecure Cookies with Qualys Web Application Scanning
  4. Container Security Becomes a Priority for Enterprises
  5. January 2019 Patch Tuesday – 47 Vulns, 7 Critical, Adobe Vulns

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December 2018

  1. New Frontiers In Cryptojacking
  2. December 2018 Patch Tuesday – 39 Vulns, Workstation Patches, Adobe Vulns
  3. Global IT Asset Inventory: The Foundation for Security and Compliance
  4. Capital One: Building Security Into DevOps

November 2018

  1. Infosec Teams Race To Secure DevOps
  2. QSC18 Takeaway: Complex Environments Demand Visibility and Real-Time Security
  3. SSL Labs Grade Change for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 Protocols
  4. QSC18: API Security, Enabling Innovation Without Enabling Attacks and Data Breaches
  5. QSC18 Day 1 Takeaway: Continuous Transformation Demands Continuous Security
  6. QSC18: The Need for Security Visibility in the Age of Digital Transformation
  7. November 2018 Patch Tuesday – 62 Vulns, TFTP Server RCE, Adobe PoC
  8. Welcome to Qualys Security Conference 2018
  9. Bluetooth Chip Bugs Affect Enterprise Wi-Fi, as Hackers Exploit Cisco 0-Day

October 2018

  1. Don’t Overlook Qualys Malware Detection
  2. Threat Hunting: Adoption, Expertise Grow, but Work Remains
  3. Apple, Amazon in a Tussle with Bloomberg over Spy Chips Report
  4. PCI & QID 38598 “Deprecated Public Key Length”
  5. October 2018 Patch Tuesday – 49 Vulns, Critical browser patches, Hyper-V, Adobe vulns
  6. Stronger Security with Global IT Asset Inventory
  7. Hackers Exploit Facebook Bug, As Twitter DMs (Maybe) Got Misrouted

September 2018

  1. Qualys Helps Consultants, MSPs Deliver World-Class Security Services To Mid-Size Customers
  2. September 2018 Patch Tuesday – 61 Vulns, FragmentSmack, Hyper-V Escape
  3. British Airways Hack Triggers GDPR Concerns, as World Awaits Windows 0-Day Patch
  4. GDPR 101: Monitoring & Maintaining Compliance After the Deadline

August 2018

  1. Securing Container Deployments with Qualys
  2. How New Passive Network Sensor Boosts Platform Capabilities
  3. Security News: Hackers Aim Ransomware at Big Cos., as Experts Call for Swift Patching of Struts Bug
  4. Detecting Apache Struts 2 Namespace RCE: CVE-2018-11776
  5. Black Hat USA 2018 Best Practices Videos
  6. August 2018 Patch Tuesday – 63 Vulns, L1TF (Foreshadow), Exchange, SQL, Active Attacks on IE flaw
  7. Introducing a Burp Extension for Integration with Qualys Web Application Scanning
  8. Security News: WannaCry Surfaces in Taiwan, as Reddit Breach Puts 2FA in the Spotlight
  9. Qualys BrowserCheck CoinBlocker Protects Users From Active Cryptojacking Campaigns
  10. Qualys Helps Smaller Organizations Secure Hybrid IT with Free Offering

July 2018

  1. Eager to Boost your Container Security? Don’t Miss this Webcast
  2. Security News: Bluetooth Bug Triggers Patch Frenzy, as Ransomware Attack Hits Global Shipper
  3. Staying Safe in the Era of Browser-based Cryptocurrency Mining
  4. SAQ Enables Users to Pick and Choose Questions for Custom Templates
  5. QSC18 Virtual Edition: Securing Containers – From Build to Deployments
  6. July Patch 2018 Tuesday – Critical browser patches, Lazy FP, Exchange, Adobe vulns

June 2018

  1. QSC18 Virtual Edition: Vulnerability Risk Management
  2. GDPR Is Here: How GDPR Readiness Can Boost Your Business
  3. GDPR Is Here: Don’t Neglect Public Cloud Security
  4. QSC18 Virtual Edition: Global IT Asset Discovery, Inventory, and Management
  5. GDPR Is Here: Web App Security Is a Must
  6. Get Emerging Threats Visibility with Qualys IOC Widgets
  7. QSC18 Virtual Edition – Building Security In: The Qualys Cloud Platform and Architecture
  8. QSC18 Virtual Edition – Securing our Networks and Enabling the Digital Transformation: One App at a Time
  9. GDPR Is Here: Indication of Compromise – Another Key Practice for GDPR Compliance
  10. June 2018 Patch Tuesday – New Speculative Store Bypass Fixes, Adobe Vulns
  11. The Digital Transformation Age Is Dawning: Do You Know Where Your Certificates Are?
  12. GDPR Is Here: Put File Integrity Monitoring in Your Toolbox

May 2018

  1. GDPR Is Here: Assess the Security Configurations of Your IT Systems
  2. All Hands Memo to Owners of Home / Small Office Routers: Reboot Them!
  3. GDPR Is Here: Assess Risk from Vendors and from Internal Teams
  4. QSC 2018 Mumbai Finds Qualys at the Forefront of Digital Transformation Security
  5. GDPR Compliance: Manage Procedural Risk Assessments with New GDPR Templates
  6. GDPR Is Here: Manage Vulnerabilities and Prioritize Threat Remediation
  7. GDPR Is Here: Achieve Superior Data Breach Prevention and Detection with Qualys
  8. Securing the Hybrid Cloud: A Guide to Using Security Controls, Tools and Automation
  9. What we’ve got here is failure to communicate: OS vendors misread CPU docs, create flaw
  10. May 2018 Patch Tuesday – Medium Weight, However One Active Exploit Needs Attention
  11. Timely Password-Change Call from Twitter, as Bugs Hit WebEx and GPON routers
  12. How To Prioritize Vulnerabilities in a Modern IT Environment

April 2018

  1. Gaining Control over Your Digital Certificates
  2. When Preparing for GDPR, Don’t Neglect Public Cloud Security
  3. Orangeworm Targeting Healthcare Industry since 2015 Now Exposed
  4. Qualys WAS Introduces Swagger Support for REST API Security Testing
  5. The Sky Is Falling! Responding Rationally to Headline Vulnerabilities
  6. Dr. Michio Kaku Paints Fascinating Picture of the Future at Qualys’ RSA Booth
  7. Qualys: Cloud Security Must Move Towards ‘Transparent Orchestration’
  8. Indication of Compromise: Another Key Practice for GDPR Compliance
  9. April 2018 Patch Tuesday – 63 Microsoft Vulnerabilities, 19 for Adobe
  10. Vendor Risk Bites Sears, Delta and Best Buy, while Saks, Lord & Taylor Deal With Breach
  11. Put FIM in Your GDPR Toolbox
  12. Microsoft Misfires with Meltdown Patch, while WannaCry Pops Up at Boeing

March 2018

  1. A “Patch for the Meltdown Patch” released out of band Thursday night
  2. Continuous Web Security Assessment for Production and DevOps Environments
  3. Securing your Cloud and Container DevOps Pipeline
  4. QID 86725 “F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer Internal IP Address Disclosure”
  5. Feds Take On Foreign Hackers, While 880K Orbitz Customers “Likely” Affected by Data Breach
  6. Webcast Q&A: The GDPR Deadline Readiness and Impact to Global Organizations Outside the EU
  7. March 2018 Patch Tuesday – 75 Microsoft Vulnerabilities, 7 for Adobe
  8. PCI DSS v3.2 & Exposing Session ID in URL
  9. Cryptomining is all the rage among hackers, as DDoS amplification attacks continue
  10. GDPR: The Stakes Are High and Time Is of the Essence
  11. TLS 1.0 Deprecation for Qualys Cloud Platform
  12. Apple in the InfoSec Spotlight, as GitHub Falls Prey to Amplified DDoS Attack

February 2018

  1. Recline on the Qualys Couch: Examining Patching Behavior
  2. Hackers Hit the Olympics, While Patch Tuesday and Meltdown / Spectre Keep IT Departments On Edge
  3. February 2018 Patch Tuesday – 55 Microsoft vulnerabilities patched, 45 for Adobe
  4. Securing IT Assets By Prioritizing Protection And Remediation
  5. Intel Makes Spectre Patch Progress, while Adobe Grapples with Latest Flash Bug
  6. If You Think File Integrity Monitoring is Boring, Think Again
  7. Countdown to GDPR: For GDPR Compliance, Web App Security Is a Must
  8. SSL Labs Grading Update: Forward Secrecy, Authenticated Encryption and ROBOT
  9. Meltdown / Spectre: New Concerns Over Intel Patches, as Hackers Test Exploits

January 2018

  1. Meltdown/Spectre: Intel Nixes Patches, Tech CEOs Questioned on Information Blackout
  2. Meltdown and Spectre Aren’t Business as Usual
  3. Meltdown / Spectre Mitigation Is a Work in Progress
  4. Continuous Security & Compliance Demo Series
  5. January 2018 Patch Tuesday – Meltdown/Spectre, 16 Critical Microsoft Patches, 1 Adobe Patch
  6. Meltdown/Spectre and Qualys Cloud Platform
  7. PCI DSS v3.2 & Private IP Address Disclosure
  8. Visualize Spectre and Meltdown Remediation with Qualys AssetView Dashboard
  9. Processor Vulnerabilities – Meltdown and Spectre

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December 2017

  1. Cloud Security Improves, But Much Work Still Remains to Be Done
  2. December 2017 Patch Tuesday: Quiet End to the Year
  3. Implementing the CIS 20 Critical Security Controls: Make Your InfoSec Foundation Rock Solid
  4. Implementing the CIS 20 Critical Security Controls: Delving into More Sophisticated Techniques

November 2017

  1. Qualys WAS: New Detections for XML External Entities (XXE)
  2. Implementing the CIS 20 Critical Security Controls: Building Upon Foundational Cyber Hygiene
  3. November Patch Tuesday: 53 Vulnerabilities and a Massive Adobe Update
  4. Implementing the CIS 20 Critical Security Controls: Slash Risk of Cyber Attacks by 85%
  5. Webcast Q&A: DevSecOps – Building Continuous Security Into IT and App Infrastructures
  6. New ‘Silence’ Banking Trojan copies Carbanak to Steal from Banks (Analysis with IOCs)
  7. Case Study: Cisco Group Bakes Security into Web App Dev Process

October 2017

  1. DevSecOps: Building Continuous Security Into IT and App Infrastructures
  2. InfoSec Pros Must Fasten Their Seatbelts for Digital Transformation Ride
  3. Webcast Q&A: Automating the CIS Critical Security Controls
  4. Bad Rabbit – Ransomware
  5. ACLU Attorney: U.S. Citizens Legally Unsheltered from Abusive Surveillance
  6. Gartner: The Pursuit of Perfection Weakens InfoSec Effectiveness
  7. QSC17: Qualys Battles the Silos, Helps Protect Digital Transformation Efforts
  8. The Shift from Securing our Networks to Enabling the Digital Transformation of our Enterprises
  9. Bugcrowd Integration Now Available in Qualys Web Application Scanning
  10. QSC17 Focuses on Digital Transformation’s Challenges and Opportunities
  11. The Critical Security Controls: Basic Cybersecurity Hygiene for your Organization
  12. October Patch Tuesday: 28 Critical Microsoft Vulnerabilities

September 2017

  1. Achieve Continuous Security and Compliance with the CIS Critical Security Controls
  2. Google and Mozilla are Deprecating Existing Symantec Certificates
  3. Fixing HPKP with Certificate Constraints
  4. September Patch Tuesday: 27 Critical Vulnerabilities from Microsoft, plus Critical Adobe Patches
  5. Fixing HPKP with Pin Revocation

August 2017

  1. SANS Institute: Hackers Paint a Bullseye on Your Employees and Endpoints
  2. Countdown to GDPR: IT Policy Compliance
  3. August Patch Tuesday: 25 critical Microsoft vulnerabilities, 43 for Adobe
  4. CyberSecurity Report: Threat Landscape Gets More Sophisticated
  5. Countdown to GDPR: Manage Vulnerabilities

July 2017

  1. How to Secure Public Clouds while Boosting Digital Transformation
  2. Introducing the Qualys New Look and Positioning
  3. Countdown to GDPR: Assess Vendor Risk
  4. Securing Public Clouds for Digital Transformation Success
  5. Q&A: Conducting Cloud-Based Vendor Risk Audits With Qualys SAQ
  6. July Patch Tuesday: 19 Critical Vulnerabilities from Microsoft, plus Critical Adobe Patches
  7. Countdown to GDPR: Prioritize Vulnerability Remediation

June 2017

  1. SSL Labs Grading Redesign (Preview 1)
  2. Save Time by Streamlining Vendor Risk Assessments in the Cloud
  3. Countdown to GDPR: Get 20/20 Visibility Into Your IT Assets
  4. Petya Ransomware: What You Need to Know
  5. Countdown to GDPR — Reduce your Risk
  6. Visualizing the Stack Clash Vulnerability with Dashboards
  7. The Stack Clash
  8. Microsoft Fixes 94 Security Issues in Massive June Update
  9. Dynamic Questionnaire: Accelerate Quick and Efficient Responses with Question Gating
  10. Lessons Learned from SQL Injection Fix in Joomla 3.7.0

May 2017

  1. Samba Vulnerability CVE-2017-7494
  2. Digging Into WannaCry Details: Answers to Your Burning Questions
  3. No More Tears: WannaCry Highlights Importance of Prompt Vulnerability Detection, Remediation
  4. Visualizing WannaCry & Shadow Brokers with Dashboards
  5. Better Trusted Scanning with Qualys-CyberArk Integration
  6. For GDPR Readiness, You Need Visibility into Your IT Assets
  7. How to Rapidly Identify Assets at Risk to WannaCry Ransomware and ETERNALBLUE Exploit
  8. Intel AMT Vulnerability
  9. Adobe Fixes Half a Dozen Flash Vulnerabilities and More
  10. Microsoft Fixes Malware Protection Engine and Several 0-Day Vulnerabilities, and Deprecates SHA-1
  11. Virtual Patching: A Lifesaver for Web App Security

April 2017

  1. Shadow Brokers Fix for IBM Lotus Domino Released
  2. Oracle Plugs Struts and Shadow Brokers hole along with 299 Total Vulnerabilities
  3. PCI DSS v3.2 & Migrating from SSL and Early TLS v1.1
  4. The Shadow Brokers Release Zero Day Exploit Tools
  5. April 2017 Patch Tuesday Video Highlights
  6. Microsoft Fixes 45 Vulnerabilities with new Security Update Guide – says goodbye to Security Bulletins
  7. Adobe Fixes Flash, PDF reader and Photoshop in April
  8. IT Asset Inventory Systems and CMDBs: A Marriage Made in InfoSec Heaven
  9. SANS 2017 Cybersecurity Trend Report Checklist
  10. SSL Labs Distrusts WoSign and StartCom certificates
  11. Microsoft IIS 6.0 Buffer Overflow Zero Day

March 2017

  1. Protect Against Critical IIS 6.0 Buffer Overflow vulnerability (CVE-2017-7269) with Qualys WAF
  2. Forrester’s DeMartine Talks DevOps, IoT, Flawed Tools and Other AppSec Hot Topics
  3. REST API Testing with Qualys Web Application Scanning
  4. SANS Study: To Take On New InfoSec Challenges, First Get the Basics Right
  5. Path Fuzzing Challenges
  6. A Comprehensive Approach to Detect and Block the Struts Critical Vulnerability CVE-2017-5638
  7. Massive Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Update for March
  8. CAA Mandated by CA/Browser Forum
  9. Examining the Current State of Database Security
  10. Qualys WAF 2.0 Protects Against Critical Apache Struts Jakarta Vulnerability ( CVE-2017-5638 )
  11. Smart DOM XSS Detection in Qualys WAS

February 2017

  1. Making Asset Inventory Actionable With a Cloud-Based System
  2. Ticketbleed Detection Added to SSL Labs
  3. RSA Conference 2017 Highlights: Qualys Cloud Platform Expansions
  4. For Complete Visibility, Dive Deep into IT Asset Discovery
  5. Simplifying Web Application Security with Qualys Web Application Firewall 2.0
  6. Microsoft February Patch Tuesday Cliffhanger and Adobe Fix for Flash
  7. IoT Security: A Hairy Issue That’s Simple to Solve
  8. Automated Asset Inventory: It’s a Visibility Thing
  9. Checklist: Qualys Top 10 Tips for a Secure & Compliant 2017

January 2017

  1. The World’s Gone Web App Crazy: Tips to Cut Risk from Hacks, Rogue Staff and Faulty Code
  2. Cross-Site Request Forgery: What Happened to the Sleeping Giant?
  3. Slash Vendor Risk and Sharpen Compliance with Policies, Standards and Regulations
  4. SSL Labs Grading Changes January 2017
  5. Oracle January 2017 CPU Fixes 270 Vulnerabilities
  6. Overwhelmed by Security Vulnerabilities? Here’s How to Prioritize
  7. What’s New SSL Labs 1.26.5 (13 Jan 2017)
  8. Five Things to Know About Qualys’ FedRAMP Authorization
  9. January 2017 Patch Tuesday Video Highlights
  10. Adobe Security Update for January: Flash and Acrobat Fixed
  11. Microsoft Starts 2017 with Record Low Security Updates
  12. Hackers Are Having a Field Day with Stolen Credentials
  13. Office Depot Extends the Value of Cloud-based Security via Qualys APIs

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December 2016

  1. 2016 Year-End Summary for Adobe and Another 0-day Fix in December
  2. Microsoft Ends 2016 with 15% Increase in Bulletin Volume
  3. SSL: Deceptively Simple, Yet Hard to Implement
  4. SANS Survey Report: Organizations’ Continuous Monitoring Programs Must Keep Maturing to Yield Full Benefits

November 2016

  1. Per-Protocol Cipher Suite Detection in SSL Labs
  2. Web and Mobile Apps Often Hide Complex Maze of Insecure Connections
  3. As Web Apps Become Top Data Breach Vector, Protecting Them is Critical
  4. SSL Labs Now Showing Multiple Certificate Chains
  5. BAI Security Eyes Threat Prioritization as Competitive Differentiator
  6. Announcing SSL Labs Grading Changes for 2017
  7. November 2016 Patch Tuesday Video Highlights
  8. Adobe Releases Flash Player and Adobe Connect Vulnerability Fix
  9. Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Patches Actively Exploited Kernel and OpenType Font, Three Previously Disclosed Browser Issues and SQL Server
  10. Windows Kernel 0-day Actively Exploited

October 2016

  1. A CSO’s View of Vulnerability Management: “Essential and Core” to Enterprise Security
  2. Emergency Flash Player 0-day update released by Adobe
  3. Video: Pulitzer Prize Winner Kaplan Talks about Cyber War in our Unsafe Internet
  4. Agility and Flexibility Needed To Manage Risk Throughout Vendor Relationship Lifecycle
  5. Oracle October 2016 Critical Patch Update
  6. My Life as a Chief Security Officer
  7. Security Is Tough, but Infosec Pros Can Find Joy in the Work
  8. Infosec Teams Need More Collaboration and Automation to Defend Their Organizations and Help Them Succeed
  9. The Big Year: 2016 Product Advances Highlighted at QSC
  10. As Traditional Network Perimeters Dissolve, Qualys Cloud Platform Provides Global Security and Compliance Visibility
  11. Qualys CEO Philippe Courtot Kicks Off QSC16 with Call for Organizations to Secure Their Digital Transformations
  12. Lasso In Employee Training, Vendor Regulatory Compliance with Automated Risk Assessments
  13. October Patch Tuesday 2016 Video Highlights
  14. Adobe October Security Advisories
  15. Microsoft October B week Patch Tuesday: Five 0-days Fixed
  16. No Security without Visibility: QSC16 to Focus on Helping Enterprises Regain Clarity into Their IT Environments
  17. To Gauge Risk from Third Parties and Employees, Scalability and Automation Are Essential
  18. Top 5 New Settings in Security Compliance Manager for Windows 10

September 2016

  1. Assessing Risk from Vendors and Other Third Parties Is Key to Business Success
  2. Problem with OpenSSL Patches of September 22, 2016
  3. Prioritizing Remediation: Visualize and Share the Data, Apply It to Your Organization
  4. Qualys Beefs Up Cloud Tool for Security Consultants
  5. Prioritizing Remediation: Plug into the Firehose of Vulnerability Disclosures and Correlate
  6. Patch Tuesday September 2016 Video Highlights
  7. Adobe September 2016 Security Update
  8. Large Microsoft Patch Tuesday Update for September 2016
  9. End the Nightmare of Vulnerability Disclosure Overload: Keep Calm and Prioritize
  10. Is HTTP Public Key Pinning Dead?

August 2016

  1. Thwarting SQL Injection: Defense in Depth
  2. Improved Suite Detection in the Next SSL Labs Release
  3. How Policy Compliance Plays a Mitigation Role to Protect Your System
  4. Mystery Magic Bytes From The Equation Leak
  5. Equation Group Hack: Cisco ASA and FortiGate Vulnerabilities
  6. Patch Tuesday August 2016 video highlights
  7. Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2016
  8. WAS 4.9 Introduces Global Exclusion Lists and Scan Comparison Feature
  9. Testing AJAX Applications with JSON Input for Vulnerabilities Using Qualys WAS
  10. TLS Version Intolerance in SSL Pulse

July 2016

  1. Handling Cross-Site Scripting As Attacks Get More Sophisticated
  2. Oracle July 2016 Critical Patch Update
  3. CGI application vulnerability httpoxy for PHP, Go, Python and others
  4. Patch Tuesday July 2016 video highlights
  5. Patch Tuesday July 2016: Microsoft and Adobe
  6. Are Your Vendors, Partners and Other Business Allies Putting Your Organization at Risk?
  7. Qualys Supports New Cisco Threat-Centric NAC
  8. New Qualys App for Splunk Enterprise Adds Real-time Dashboard and Analytics for Web Application Scanning

June 2016

  1. New Release of SSL/TLS Deployment Best Practices
  2. So Many Vulnerabilities, So Little Time: Threat Protection Identifies the Assets You Must Patch Now
  3. More on Microsoft and Adobe Patches June 2016
  4. Patch Tuesday June 2016

May 2016

  1. WAS 4.8 Features Vulnerability Retest Function and Finding Severity Customization
  2. How to Avoid Account Lockouts When Scanning Web Applications
  3. SSL Labs in 2016 and Beyond
  4. Update: Patch Tuesday May 2016
  5. Protect Your Systems Against SAMSAM and Prove the Value of Cyber Security to Your Organization
  6. More on May 2016 Microsoft and Adobe Patches
  7. OpenSSL CVE-2016-2107 Grading Update

April 2016

  1. How Ignoring Low-Level Security Risks Can Open the Door to Major Attacks
  2. Oracle Critical Patch Update April 2016
  3. WAS 4.7 Adds Enhanced Support for Redundant Link Checks
  4. More on April 2016 Microsoft and Adobe Patches including BADLOCK
  5. Patch Tuesday April 2016
  6. Update: Adobe to release patch for 0-day in Flash Player
  7. WAS 4.6 Adds Option to Remove Unused Assets from Subscription when Deprovisioning
  8. Qualys WAS 4.6 Adds SmartScan

March 2016

  1. Qualys Vulnerability Management Notification: Reference Data Formatting Change
  2. Qualys Cloud Platform Updates Now Available
  3. The Importance of a Proper HTTP Strict Transport Security Implementation on Your Web Server
  4. Oracle out-of-band release for Java 0-day
  5. Patch Tuesday Update: Adobe Flash 0-day APSB16-08
  6. More on March 2016 Microsoft and Adobe Patches
  7. Patch Tuesday March 2016
  8. DROWN Grading Update
  9. SSL Labs DROWN Test Implementation Details
  10. DROWN at Qualys
  11. DROWN Abuses SSL v2 to Attack TLS

February 2016

  1. New Certified Qualys App for ServiceNow Configuration Management Provides Real Time Visibility of Your Enterprise’s Global IT Infrastructure
  2. New critical glibc vulnerability
  3. Critical Cisco VPN Flaw
  4. More on February 2016 Microsoft and Adobe Patches
  5. Patch Tuesday February 2016
  6. Newest Java Addresses Binary Planting Vulnerability

January 2016

  1. What is the Apex Predator Doing to Get Your Information?
  2. Oracle Critical Patch Update January 2016
  3. Hunting For Vulnerable Functions In Microsoft Silverlight MS16-006
  4. More on January 2016 Microsoft and Adobe Patches with information on retired Internet Explorer
  5. Update: Patch Tuesday January 2016
  6. Qualys WAS 4.5 New Features
  7. Qualys MD 2.8 New Features
  8. Qualys WAF 2.0 New Feature
  9. How Open Redirection Threatens Your Web Applications

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December 2015

  1. Update: Last Adobe 0-day Patched for the Year
  2. Qualys Cloud Agent Client 1.3 for Windows Now Available
  3. 58% increase in Microsoft Security Bulletins in 2015
  4. Patch Tuesday December 2015

November 2015

  1. eDellRoot SSL Certificate Leaves Dell Endpoints At Risk to MITM Attacks
  2. Qualys Cloud Agent Client 1.2 for Windows Now Available
  3. Qualys WAS 4.4 New Features
  4. More on Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday: November 2015
  5. Patch Tuesday November 2015
  6. Version 1.20.28 now running in production

October 2015

  1. Protect Against the Joomla SQL Injection Vulnerability
  2. Protection from Unrestricted File Upload Vulnerability
  3. Oracle Critical Patch Update October 2015
  4. Clickjacking: A Common Implementation Mistake Can Put Your Websites in Danger
  5. Qualys MD 2.7 New Features
  6. Qualys WAS 4.3 New Features
  7. Qualys Cloud Suite 8.6 New Features
  8. Adobe Addresses 0-Day Vulnerability in Flash
  9. More on Patch Tuesday October 2015
  10. Patch Tuesday October 2015
  11. Implementing the TLS Maturity Model
  12. Security is Breaking Down… Why Now, and What Can We Do About It? A conversation with Tyler Shields, Principal Analyst at Forrester
  13. Philippe Courtot at Qualys Security Conference: Achieving Security When Everything is Connected to Everything
  14. Welcome to Qualys Security Conference 2015
  15. New Qualys App for Splunk Enterprise Delivers Real-time Dashboard and Analytics for Security and Compliance Data
  16. Qualys Named to Cloud Top 500

September 2015

  1. September Patch Adobe Flash
  2. Blind Elephant Web Application Fingerprinter
  3. New Penalty for RC4-Only Servers in October 2015
  4. Microsoft Patch Tuesday September 2015
  5. Patch Tuesday September 2015

August 2015

  1. Pebble Smart Watch Developer Portal Vulnerability
  2. No Change to RC4 Grading in September
  3. MS15-093 – OOB fix for Internet Explorer
  4. Adobe, Microsoft and Firefox Updates – August 2015
  5. Patch Tuesday August 2015

July 2015

  1. Update: Multiple 0-days in Internet Explorer
  2. ForeScout Integrates with Qualys
  3. Adobe, Microsoft and Oracle Patch Tuesday – July 2015
  4. Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Changes Required for Oracle Assessments
  5. Update2: Patch Tuesday July 2015
  6. OpenSSL Vulnerability
  7. Update5 – HackingTeam 0-day for Flash

June 2015

  1. Qualys MD 2.6.4 New Features
  2. Qualys WAS 4.2 New Features
  3. Automatic Protection from Vulnerabilities in Concrete5
  4. Update – New 0-day for Adobe Flash
  5. Top 4 New Settings in Security Compliance Manager for Windows 8.1
  6. Device Vulnerabilities Fixed: Garrettcom Magnum Series
  7. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday – June 2015
  8. Patch Tuesday June 2015 – Update
  9. Introducing TLS Maturity Model

May 2015

  1. SSL Labs: Increased Penalty When TLS 1.2 Is Not Supported
  2. SSL Labs 1.17: RC4, Obsolete Crypto, and Logjam
  3. Magento RCE And Application Security Templates
  4. Venom Hypervisor Vulnerability
  5. BSI Top 10 in a Nutshell: Patch These Software Packages
  6. Microsoft Patch Tuesday – May 2015
  7. Patch Tuesday May 2015
  8. Call for Papers: Qualys Security Conference 2015
  9. WordPress: When Half of all Websites are Vulnerable
  10. What You Need to Know About the Upcoming Leap Second
  11. US-CERT: Top 30 Vulnerabilities

April 2015

  1. What’s New in SSL Labs 1.16.x
  2. SSL Labs RC4 Deprecation Plan
  3. Deploy Virtual Patches on Qualys WAF Based on Detected Web App Vulnerabilities
  4. Continuous Monitoring for Critical Internal Assets
  5. Introducing the New Groundbreaking Qualys Cloud Agent Platform
  6. MS15-034 Analysis And Remote Detection
  7. Security Issues Discovered (And Fixed) in SearchBlox
  8. Qualys Continuous Monitoring 1.7 New Features
  9. Qualys PCI Compliance Now Supports PCI DSS 3.1
  10. Top 5 Client Side Patch Tuesday Vulnerabilities from Microsoft, Oracle and Adobe – April 2015
  11. Top 5 Server Side Patch Tuesday Vulnerabilities from Microsoft, Oracle and Adobe – April 2015
  12. Patch Tuesday April 2015
  13. Qualys WAS 4.1 New Features
  14. New Detection for PCI DSS 3.1

March 2015

  1. Qualys SCAP Auditor 1.2 Certification Completed
  2. GHOST Vulnerability Exploit via Remote Code Execution
  3. Microsoft Patch Tuesday March 2015
  4. Patch Tuesday March 2015
  5. Call for Customer Presenters in Qualys Booth at RSA Conference 2015
  6. Addressing CVE-2015-0204 FREAK with Qualys VM
  7. OpenSSL Cookbook 2nd Edition Released
  8. Top 10 Vulnerabilities – February 2015
  9. Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Changes Required for Oracle Assessments

February 2015

  1. Qualys and BMC Join Forces to Close the SecOps Gap
  2. How to Check for Unprotected MongoDB Databases
  3. How a Missing Security Check Enabled a CSRF Attack
  4. Qualys Named a Finalist for Seven 2015 SC Awards
  5. Patch Tuesday February 2015
  6. February 0-day for Adobe Flash – Update 2

January 2015

  1. The GHOST Vulnerability
  2. Protect Your Applications from Hacker Research
  3. Multiple Vulnerabilities Detected in Schneider FactoryCast HMI Gateway
  4. SSL Labs APIs Now Available In Beta
  5. New 0-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash – Update 5
  6. Patch Tuesday January 2015, 2nd Edition
  7. Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Technology Support Changes for Windows 2012 R2/Windows 8.1
  8. Do Your Anti-CSRF Tokens Really Protect Your Web Apps from CSRF Attacks?
  9. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday January 2015
  10. Patch Tuesday January 2015

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December 2014

  1. Microsoft, Adobe, POODLE on Patch Tuesday December 2014
  2. December 2014 Patch Tuesday
  3. SSL Labs End of Year 2014 Updates
  4. Poodle Bites TLS
  5. December 2014 Patch Tuesday Preview

November 2014

  1. November Patch Tuesday – Part 3
  2. Qualys WAS 4.0 New Features
  3. November Patch Tuesday – Part 2
  4. Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday November 2014
  5. November 2014 Patch Tuesday
  6. Drupal SQL Critical Vulnerability and How Qualys Can Help
  7. November 2014 Patch Tuesday Preview

October 2014

  1. 0-day in Microsoft OLE Packager/PowerPoint
  2. Enterprise IoT Risk Is Getting Real
  3. SSLv3 and POODLE attacks – Update
  4. Qualys CEO Courtot in QSC Keynote: Security Now a Challenge of Scale, Accuracy, Speed and Insight
  5. QSC Keynote Preview: Inflection, Security’s Next 10 Years
  6. SSL 3 is dead, killed by the POODLE attack
  7. Web Application Security: Q&A with Will Bechtel
  8. Microsoft, Oracle and Adobe Patch Tuesday October 2014
  9. Oracle CPU October 2014
  10. QSC Panel Preview: Internet of Things: Assessing the Real Risk
  11. October 2014 Patch Tuesday
  12. October 2014 Patch Tuesday Preview
  13. Identify Threats in Frameworks that your Application Relies on with Qualys Web Application Scanning
  14. Custom Option Profile To Detect Bash Shellshock
  15. Check for Shellshock using Qualys FreeScan
  16. Using Qualys WAS Scan to Detect ShellShock Vulnerability

September 2014

  1. First Look: The New Version of Windows, Code-Named Threshold
  2. Get BASH ShellShock Alerts Using Qualys Continuous Monitoring
  3. Qualys QID 13038: Remote Detection for BASH ShellShock
  4. Shellshock: Is Your Webserver Under Attack?
  5. Bash Shellshock Command Injection Vulnerabilities
  6. BASH Shellshock vulnerability – Update5
  7. Qualys Adds Support for PCI DSS 3.0 in Qualys Policy Compliance
  8. XSS Vulnerability Shows How Security Issues Can Creep into Popular Software
  9. Qualys WAS 3.6 New Features
  10. More on Patch Tuesday September 2014
  11. September 2014 Patch Tuesday
  12. SHA1 Deprecation: What You Need to Know
  13. September 2014 Patch Tuesday Preview
  14. Backoff Malware: What You Should Know
  15. My New Book: Bulletproof SSL and TLS

August 2014

  1. Black Hat USA 2014: Security Risks of the Internet of Things
  2. More on Patch Tuesday August 2014
  3. Patch Tuesday August 2014 – Update
  4. August 2014 Patch Tuesday Preview

July 2014

  1. Interview: Jeffrey Leggett, author of “setup_scanner”
  2. Qualys Continuous Monitoring API Update
  3. Qualys Continuous Monitoring 1.4 New Features
  4. How ZeroCMS Could Have Avoided Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability CVE-2014-4710
  5. Sync Your VM Data Fast
  6. Interview: Mark Alvarez, author of “Managing Gazillion Vulnerabilities”
  7. Oracle Critical Patch Update July 2014
  8. Internet Explorer Half-life 2013
  9. Qualys WAS 3.5 New Features
  10. Interview: Michael Calvi, author of “Multiple Scanner Appliance Selector”
  11. Oracle Critical Patch Update July 2014
  12. More on Patch Tuesday July 2014
  13. Patch Tuesday July 2014
  14. July 2014 Patch Tuesday Preview

June 2014

  1. QualysGuard 8.1 New Features
  2. Additional June Security Advisories by Microsoft
  3. SSL Labs: New Grades for Trust (T) and Mismatch (M) Issues
  4. SSL Pulse: 49% Vulnerable to CVE-2014-0224, 14% Exploitable
  5. More on Patch Tuesday June 2014
  6. Patch Tuesday June 2014
  7. June 2014 Patch Tuesday Preview and New OpenSSL MITM Issue – Update
  8. Qualys WAS 3.4 New Features
  9. New Alert Filters in Qualys Continuous Monitoring
  10. Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit

May 2014

  1. New Internet Explorer 8 0-day by ZDI
  2. Welcome to the New and Improved Qualys Community
  3. More on Patch Tuesday May 2014
  4. Patch Tuesday May 2014
  5. Pre Patch Tuesday May 2014
  6. New Internet Explorer 0-day – Update2

April 2014

  1. Adobe out-of-band patch for Flash vulnerability
  2. Apple Security Update for Mac OS X and iOS
  3. Heartbleed Post-Mortem Webinar
  4. More on Patch Tuesday April 2014
  5. Oracle April CPU 2014: Java Takes the Lion’s Share
  6. Heartbleed Remediation Report Now Available in QualysGuard
  7. Heartbleed Detection Update
  8. SSL Labs Test for the Heartbleed Attack
  9. Patch Tuesday April 2014
  10. Comparing Windows XP Usage by Country, Industry
  11. New 0-day out for Microsoft Word – Update2
  12. April 2014 Patch Tuesday Preview
  13. Windows XP Usage Lower Across Industries
  14. Top 4 Controls for a Secure PC – Part 2

March 2014

  1. Top 4 Controls for a Secure PC – Part 1
  2. HTTPS Mixed Content: Still the Easiest Way to Break SSL
  3. QualysGuard WAS 3.3 New Features
  4. CanSecWest – PWN2OWN overview – Update
  5. More on Patch Tuesday March 2014
  6. March 2014 Patch Tuesday
  7. March 2014 Patch Tuesday Preview
  8. Qualys at RSA Conference 2014

February 2014

  1. Qualys Wins Best Security Company at SC Magazine Awards
  2. MediaWiki DjVu and PDF File Upload Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2014-1610)
  3. RSA 2014: Automating the 20 Critical Security Controls
  4. Web Application Firewall Defends Your Web Apps
  5. Qualys Launches New Free Top 4 Service
  6. The New Continuous Monitoring Service and the GA of QualysGuard WAF
  7. Risk I/O Partners with Qualys to Monitor Perimeter Security Risks
  8. SSL Labs: Testing for Apple’s TLS Authentication Bug
  9. Adobe Out-Of-Band Release for Flash
  10. AlgoSec Partners with Qualys
  11. New Internet Explorer 0-day out in the Wild – Update
  12. More on Patch Tuesday February 2014
  13. February 2014 Patch Tuesday
  14. February 2014 Patch Tuesday Preview – Update
  15. PathDefender to Deliver QualysGuard Solutions as Part of McAfee Secure Services
  16. Adobe Flash Update Released to Patch Critical Vulnerability CVE 2014 0497
  17. Accuvant Partners with Qualys for Continuous Vulnerability Management Solution

January 2014

  1. QualysGuard 7.13 New Features
  2. QualysGuard WAS 3.2 New Features
  3. Lumension Partners with Qualys
  4. How to detect NTP Amplification DoS Attacks
  5. SSL Labs: Stricter Security Requirements for 2014
  6. Detect NTP Amplification Flaws
  7. Qualys Receives Frost & Sullivan Global Vulnerability Management Market Leadership Award
  8. More on Patch Tuesday January 2014
  9. January 2014 Patch Tuesday
  10. January 2014 Patch Tuesday Preview – Update
  11. Top 13 of ’13: Qualys Community

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