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3 years
Sequoia: A Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Linux’s Filesystem Layer (CVE-2021-33909): Any unprivileged user can gain root privileges on a vulnerable host by exploiting this vulnerability in a default configuration.
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2 years
The #Qualys Research Team has discovered an easily exploitable memory corruption vulnerability ( #Pwnkit ) in polkit a SUID-root program that allows any unprivileged local user to gain root privileges on all major linux systems in its default configuration:
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3 years
Qualys Research Team discovered 21 severe vulnerabilities in Exim, the mail transfer agent (MTA) responsible for 60% of internet mail traffic. #21Nails could allow a remote attacker to gain full root privileges on the target server & execute commands.
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#CloudSecurity is a complex landscape, and the challenges of protecting it are unique. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear experts offer their best advice on what security leaders need to know to protect their #cloud assets. #CyberRiskSeries
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8 years
#OpenSSH vulnerability (CVE-2016-0777 and CVE-2016-0778) full details and exploit:
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5 years
System Down Vulnerability: Qualys discloses three locally-exploitable vulnerabilities in systemd-journald, which is in every modern Linux distro
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4 years
Qualys researchers discovered an authentication-bypass vulnerability (CVE-2019-19521) in OpenBSD's authentication system. Special thanks to Theo de Raadt and the OpenBSD developers for a very quick response: they published patches in <40 hours.
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9 years
GHOST remote code execution exploit published:
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2 years
The #Qualys Research Team has discovered Oh Snap! More Lemmings: Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability in snap-confine, a SUID-root program that is installed by default on #Ubuntu .  Discover vulnerable Linux servers using Qualys #VMDR :
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4 years
Qualys researchers discovered a Local Privilege Escalation in OpenBSD's dynamic loader (). We thank Theo de Raadt and the OpenBSD developers for their incredibly quick response: they published a patch in <3 hours.
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3 years
Exploit for CVE-2021-33909 ( #Sequoia ) is now available after successful testing on vulnerable versions of Ubuntu 20.04, 20.10, 21.04, Debian 11, and Fedora 34 Workstation. See cve-2021-33909-exploit.tar.gz at
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3 years
The Qualys Research Team is honored to receive five nominations for Pwnie awards across three different categories: Best Privilege Escalation Bug, Best Server-Side Bug, and Most Under-Hyped Research. #BaronSamedit #21Nails #Sequoia
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7 years
Serious privilege escalation bug in Unix OSes imperils servers everywhere #stackclash
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7 years
Get a signed copy of brand new @kevinmitnick Art of Invisibility Qualys booth #RSAC2017 Tues 10:30am
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8 years
Meet Mr. Robot’s Rami Malek at the Qualys booth at #RSAC #RSAC2016 ! Tuesday 3pm.
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8 years
New Release of SSL/TLS Deployment Best Practices
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9 years
Details on the GHOST vulnerability CVE-2015-0235
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5 years
The D in SystemD stands for Dammmit... Security holes found in much-adored Linux toolkit via @theregister
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8 years
Talking about shooting the show. Rami's taking a red-eye to NYC tonight to start shooting season 2!
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4 years
Zoom path traversal into remode code execution vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-6109, CVE-2020-6110). Qualys detections are available, and #zoom has released a patch.
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6 years
Qualys Community Edition now available: A free version of the Qualys Cloud Platform designed for the security community.
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10 years
SSL Labs Test for the #heartbleed Attack @ivanristic
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8 years
Mr. Robot’s Rami Malek speaks & signs autographs at Qualys booth at #RSAC2016 #exciting
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5 years
Nice work from @Synacktiv : Scraps of Notes on Exploiting EXIM Vulnerabilities gives an overview on Exim internals from the exploitability point of view and notes on exploiting EXIM vulns along w/ the PoC. @paulfariello @abu_y0ussef
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5 years
Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) critical severity vulnerability. Initial report by 'Zerons' on July 21 with analysis & proof-of-concept exploit by Qualys' research team. via @BleepinComputer
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7 years
Security advisory: Linux PIE/stack Corruption (CVE-2017-1000253)
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8 years
Mr. Robot helps raise visibility of security. See #RSAC video interview of @ItsRamiMalek
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7 years
NEW! @ssllabs 1.25.2 shows all certificates discovered while testing a site (usually RSA and ECDSA)! For example:
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3 years
This just in! Qualys’ all-star research team has won the “Most Under-Hyped Research” category at Pwnie Awards 2021, for its 21Nails disclosure! Read more here:
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9 years
OpenSSL Cookbook 2nd Edition released with lots more content: private CA creation, secure server assessment, etc.
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8 years
New PCI DSS v3.2 requirements mean SSL & early TLS will cause PCI Fail starting Nov 1, 2016
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7 years
. @ivanristic signing Bulletproof SSL and TLS at Qualys Private Reception #RSAC2017
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4 years
The partnership between Ivanti and Qualys brings full lifecycle vulnerability management, detection and response into a single platform.
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3 years
Check out this heart to heart with Qualys’ CEO, Sumedh Thakar on @ZeroToExit1 . He shares insight into Qualys’ deliberate approach to growth, the cyber industry’s pain points, and solutions that help bridge these gaps. Listen here:
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6 years
@Sekurak Removed. We congratulate @Sekurak on your research.
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8 years
Autographs & photo op with Rami Malek now at our booth at #RSAC . Come on by.
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4 years
15 years later: Remote Code Execution in qmail (CVE-2005-1513)
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3 years
Millions affected by 10-year old bug in a Linux utility that gives root access to *any* local user. Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora, Amazon Linux unpatched.
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1 year
Happy Monday from the newest member of the Qualys family! We're hoping that this week is off to an excellent start! #LifeAtQualys
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6 years
Implementing the @CISecurity 20 Critical Security Controls
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3 years
This just in! Qualys’ all-star research team has won the Pwnie 2021 Awards in the "Best Privileged Escalation Bug" category, for the heap overflow vulnerability in Sudo! #BaronSamedit Read more here:
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8 years
Most measures of SSL implementation correctness moving in right direction (change %s almost all green), if slowly.
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7 years
New in SSL Labs, TLS 1.3 detection in the client test
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8 years
Rami Malek still going strong signing autographs. #RSAC #RSAC2016
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6 years
Move-in day at the new Qualys corporate offices in Foster City, CA.
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6 years
Cybercriminals only need to find one way in, but #pentesters have their work cut out for them to block every way in. @angus_tx will illustrate using real stories at his keynote at #qsc18 Meet Charles:
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And Rami Malek is here! #RSAC
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It’s Mr. Robot Day at #RSAC . Meet star Rami Malek at the Qualys booth at 3pm today.
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7 years
Closing #QSC17 keynote by Jennifer @granick on surveillance in the digital age
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2 years
Apache Log4j2 Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild (Log4Shell):
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13 years
Testing Web Servers (Apache, nginx, lighttpd & IIS) for Slow HTTP Attacks: http://t.co/jsOdJNIn
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9 years
Remote detection available for MS15-034, the HTTP.sys remote code execution vulnerability. Full analysis at
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5 years
SSL Labs now gives a warning for supporting TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1
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4 years
Sumedh Thakar demos Qualys VMDR, including orchestration playbooks that define remediation actions taken on your targets. #QSC20 #London
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Qualys Vulnerability Management Video Series — Updated with all new videos!
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SSL Labs DROWN Test Implementation Details: How we test it in SSL Labs
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4 years
Introducing Qualys VMDR® – All-in-One Vulnerability Management, Detection, and Response. Visit to Try VMDR for Free. #VMDR #QSC20 #VulnerabilityManagement #Detection #Response
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6 years
Scanning Strategies & Best Practices: 21 short videos covering topics like host discovery and scanner parallelization. Watch now!
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Qualys is proud to support Ivan and SSL Labs.
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Ivan Ristic and SSL Labs: How one man changed the way we understand SSL - - @ivanristic
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6 years
New Security Advisory: Memory Leak (CVE-2017-1000408) and Buffer Overflow (CVE-2017-1000409) in GNU C Library Dynamic Loader (ld.so)
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Up next, Qualys CEO, Sumedh Thakar talks #automation in the #digital #journey : “Cybersecurity is a race – either attackers get to your vulnerability first, or you do. What everything comes down to is how do we [cybersecurity professionals] win this race.”
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6 years
Visualizing #Spectre / #Meltdown Impact and Remediation Progress #assetview #dashboard
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Happy Thanksgiving to our customers, partners and friends from the team at Qualys!
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How Microsoft evaluates the security of hundreds of web apps that come online every year
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Check out this heart to heart with Qualys’ CEO, Sumedh Thakar on @ZeroToExit1 . He shares insight into Qualys’ deliberate approach to growth, the cyber industry’s pain points, and solutions that help bridge these gaps. Listen here:
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@_sinn3r We updated the GHOST exploit to make it more reliable. See update at end of blog post:
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3 years
Qualys Board Names Sumedh Thakar as CEO
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The exploit code for Linux PIE/stack Corruption (CVE-2017-1000253) is now available:
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7 years
Security advisory: Linux PIE/stack Corruption (CVE-2017-1000253)
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6 years
Stop Cryptojacking Browser Attacks with the free Coinblocker Browser plugin!
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2 years
Kicking off our #QSC2021 keynote series with former @CISAgov director, @C_C_Krebs . It is an honor for Qualys to provide a space for industry veterans to share insights with peers on how to defend against today's bad actors.
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Windows RDP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability ( #BlueKeep ) – How to Detect and Patch #PatchTuesday
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SSL Labs: Increased Penalty When TLS 1.2 Is Not Supported
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6 years
Security News: British Airways hack, app takedowns at the Mac App Store, data breach at a Chinese hotel chain, and an unpatched Windows zero-day exploited in the wild
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Happy Diwali from Qualys!
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Qualys Takes Its Cloud Platform to the Next Level with Native Integration of Real-Time Network Analysis
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Watch Hacker Stories: Turning Use Cases Into Abuse Cases, and gain insights into how to protect your infrastructure. Presentation by Charles Henderson @angus_tx , global head of IBM @XForceRed , only at #QSC19 Las Vegas next week. Last chance to register!
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Going to Blackhat USA? Stop by booth #1320 to learn about consolidating your security stack onto a single platform. With Qualys, you'll worry less, automate, detect and remediate more. More information at #BlackhatUSA
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Qualys VP Chris Carlson explains why organizations need to build security into the DevOps pipeline instead of bolting it on after the fact. via @ZDNet & @joemckendrick
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WannaCry Déjà Vu: Petya Ransomware Outbreak Wreaking Havoc Across the Globe
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Organizations need a tool that automates web application scanning tasks, because manual testing, while effective, requires a large and specially-trained staff, making it too costly and difficult to scale.
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After #Spectre & #Meltdown patches, the focus for workstation environments should be on fixing Outlook vulnerability CVE-2018-0793 & Word flaw CVE-2018-0794, said Qualys director of product management, Jimmy Graham.
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Opening keynote at #BHUSA
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