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Improving Cybersecurity Practices by Managing the Asset Lifecycle
Securing enterprise environments continues to increase in importance. Attacks on infrastructure continue to increase and organizations need to focus more on prevention. While new vulnerabilities are continually being discovered, companies areGoogle Android August 2021 Security Patch Vulnerabilities: Discover and Take Remote Response Action Using VMDR for Mobile Devices
The recently released Android Security Bulletin for August 2021 addresses 36 vulnerabilities, out of which 5 are rated as critical vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities affect open-source components such as the Android Framework, Android MediaTenacity – An Adversary Emulation Tool for Persistence
Persistence is one of the more sought-after techniques of an attacker or adversary. Persistence is achieved through a set of tactics or techniques that adversaries use to maintain their foothold on compromised systems across restarts, changedQualys Research Nominated for Pwnie Awards 2021
The Qualys Research team has been nominated for five Pwnie Awards this year in three different categories. In addition to nominations for Best Privilege Escalation Bug (2 nominations) and Best Server-Side Bug (2 nominations), the team is alsoProtect your Devices from Pegasus Spyware using VMDR for Mobile Devices’ Proactive Approach
Pegasus spyware is in the news, and it has been used to target devices of critical people from different sectors and countries including journalists, activists, politicians, and business executives. It has been said that a leaked list of 50,000Google Android July 2021 Security Patch Vulnerabilities: Discover and Take Remote Response Action Using VMDR for Mobile Devices
The recently released Android Security Bulletin for July 2021 addresses 44 vulnerabilities, out of which 7 are rated as critical vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities affect open-source components such as the Android Framework, Android MediaQualys API Best Practices: Host List Detection API
Host List Detection is your subscription’s list of hosts and their corresponding up-to-date detections including: Confirmed Vulnerability Detections Potential Vulnerability Detections Information Gathered Detections about your system AfterDarkSide Ransomware
DarkSide ransomware is a relatively new ransomware strain that threat actors have been using to target multiple large, high-revenue organizations resulting in the encryption and theft of sensitive data and threats to make it publicly availableMonitor Windows Registry Changes with Qualys File Integrity Monitoring
With Windows registries storing a large number of programs and OS security settings and a large amount of raw data, threat actors have begun to use those registries as a data store for their malicious activity. It is therefore imperative forReinforce Defense with File Reputation and Trusted Source Intelligence in Qualys FIM
Monitoring change events in the file system is both a crucial aspect of security and a critical compliance requirement. A file integrity monitoring tool functions as an essential layer of defense to identify illicit activities across criticalLoad More