Entries by Markus Feilner

Ivanti Connect Secure VPN: Greenbone protects against Zero Day

A series of flaws in Ivanti’s Connect Secure VPN is being actively exploited by attackers. Both the German BSI and the US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have spread a warning. CISA has even issued an Emergency Directive ordering all Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply patches immediately. Thousands of publicly […]

CISA warning: Serious Security Vulnerability in MS Sharepoint

Two security vulnerabilities in Sharepoint – both from last year – are currently causing trouble for Sharepoint administrators. Because attackers are increasingly exploiting a combination of the two vulnerabilities, the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency CISA is now also issuing a warning. Affected customers of the Greenbone Enterprise Feed have been warned since June 2023. Remote […]

CVE News: Critical vulnerabilities Atlassian and F5 Big vulnerability tests released by Greenbone

Our developers have provided vulnerability tests for two critical vulnerabilities in widely used enterprise software. Within a very short time, tests for CVE 2023-22518 und CVE 2023-46747 were integrated, and customers of Greenbone’s Enterprise Feed were protected. Knowledge management tools Confluence and Jira from Australian vendor Atlassian have been hit by a serious security vulnerability, […]

“Vulnerability management is becoming increasingly important” – Greenbone CEO Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner at PITS Congress

Every year, IT and cyber security experts from public authorities, federal, state and local governments as well as the armed forces, police and intelligence services meet for the cyber security congress “Public IT Security” (PITS), initiated by Behoerdenspiegel. In 2023, the topic of vulnerabilities was once again at the top of the agenda. This year, […]

Master’s thesis: Automated vulnerability detection and response in the network perimeter

The long-standing cooperation between Greenbone AG and the University of Osnabrück has once again resulted in a successful master’s thesis. Under the title “Development of an Automated Network Perimeter Threat Prevention System (DETERRERS)”, Nikolas Wintering wrote his master’s thesis in the Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science working group of the Department of Mathematics/Computer Science at […]

Greenbone tests your web applications

Reduce the risk of an attack from the internet on your servers: Take advantage of Greenbone’s latest offer: With our Pentesting Web Applications, we help you to get the best possible security for your web applications. The numbers speak for themselves: attacks on web applications are on the rise, have been for years, and there […]

BSI warns: Log4J remains a problem

Even more than two years after the first problems with Log4j became known, many scenarios are apparently still running unpatched versions of the logging library. Greenbone’s products help – especially in detecting outdated software. No one should take Log4j lightly as a done deal just because the vulnerability (CVE 2021-44228) has actually been fixed for […]

Outlook Zero Day: Greenbone vulnerability management helps

At its latest patchday, software manufacturer Microsoft patched a severe zero-day vulnerability that had been exploited by intelligence agencies and Russian hacker groups, among others, in the summer of 2022. Early on, Greenbone was able to provide a test in the process, helping companies find unpatched systems and secure data centers and clients. The CVE-2023-23397 […]

Orange Security Report: Many old vulnerabilities still open

According to the latest study by Orange Security, 13 percent of the vulnerabilities found in today’s corporate networks were already known in 2012, and almost half of all gaps are more than five years old – and the trend is increasing. Professional vulnerability management such as the Greenbone product family can provide a remedy. The […]