Posts by Caitlin Condon

2 min Metasploit

Congrats to the Winners of the 2020 Metasploit Community CTF

After four days of competition and a whole lot of “trying harder,” we have the winners of this year's Metasploit community CTF [/2020/01/15/announcing-the-2020-metasploit-community-ctf/]. We've included some high-level stats from the game below; check out the scoreboard here [https://metasploitctf.com/scoreboard]. If you played the CTF and want to let the Metasploit team know which challenges you found exhilarating, interesting, or infuriating (in a good way, of course), we have a feedback surve

2 min Metasploit

Metasploit Team Announces Beta Sign-Up for AttackerKB

AttackerKB is a knowledge base of vulnerabilities and informed opinions on what makes them valuable (or not) targets for exploitation.

5 min Metasploit

Announcing the 2020 Metasploit Community CTF

Metasploit's community CTF is back! Starting January 30, players will have four days to find flags and win points and glory. Teams welcome.

9 min Haxmas

Memorable Metasploit Moments of 2019

Here’s a smattering of the year’s Metasploit Framework highlights from 2019. As ever, we’re grateful to and for the community that keeps us going strong.

2 min Metasploit Weekly Wrapup

Metasploit Wrap-Up 5/31/19

Unauthenticated scanner for BlueKeep, community hackathon in Austin, and the usual long list of fixes and enhancements.

2 min Metasploit

Introducing the Metasploit Development Diaries

In our new Metasploit Development Diaries series, we will share stories of how exploitable conditions become stable, seasoned Metasploit Framework modules.

7 min Haxmas

The New Shiny: Memorable Metasploit Moments of 2018

Happy HaXmas, friends. Metasploit turned 15 this year, and by all accounts, 2018 was pretty epic.

2 min Metasploit

Congrats to the 2018 Metasploit Community CTF Winners

After three days of fierce competition, we have the winners of this year's Metasploit community CTF [https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2018/11/05/announcing-the-2018-metasploit-community-ctf/] . We've included some high-level stats from the game below; check out the scoreboard. If you played the CTF this weekend and want to let the Metasploit team know which challenges you found exhilarating, interesting, or infuriating (in a good way, of course). Congratulations to everyone who teamed up with

3 min Metasploit

Announcing the 2018 Metasploit Community CTF

Two targets, three days, and a thousand teams: Put your skills to the test for a chance to win prizes and bragging rights in Metasploit’s 2018 community CTF.

3 min Metasploit Weekly Wrapup

Metasploit Wrapup: 10/12/18

New evasion modules in Metasploit Framework, highlights from our Town Hall at DerbyCon VIII, and the last week's improvements and module additions.

3 min Penetration Testing

Putting Pen (Tests) to Paper: Lessons and Learnings from Rapid7’s Annual Mega-Hackathon

Rapid7's Mega-Hackathon offers a unique chance to go beyond the data and get a feel for what pen testers are like in their natural habitat.

3 min Threat Intel

Threat Intel Book Club: The Cuckoo's Egg wrap-up

Last week, Rebekah Brown [https://twitter.com/PDXbek] and I wrapped up The Cuckoo’s Egg [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg] with book club readers around the world. Dig through some blog archives to get a sense of how this book club got started [/2018/02/02/welcome-to-the-2018-threat-intel-book-club/] and what we’ve discussed [/2018/02/27/recap-2-21-threat-intelligence-book-club/] so far [/2018/03/18/next-threat-intel-book-club-4-5-recapping-the-cuckoos-egg/]. Below is a recap of

2 min Metasploit

Announcing the Metasploitable3 Community CTF

Been waiting for the Linux version of Metasploitable3 to drop? We’ll do you one better: Metasploit is giving the community a week to rain shells on a penguin-shaped Metasploitable3 instance—and to win prizes at the end of it. Play starts December 4; see below for full competition details. TL;DR: Sign up, drop shells, win stuff. Not into capturing flags but jonesing for a look at the code? We’ll release the Linux Metasploitable3 source code to the community soon after the competition ends. Happ

4 min Events

UNITED Summit: Day 2

After a jam-packed day one of Rapid7’s UNITED Summit [/2017/09/13/united-summit-day-1/], the UNITED running club started the day bright and early yet again. The rest of us opened UNITED [https://unitedsummit.org/index.php] day two with a fireside chat hosted by Jen Ellis [/author/jen-ellis], Rapid7 VP of Community and Public Affairs, and a slew of prominent security commentators: Lares founder Chris Nickerson [https://twitter.com/indi303], Mach37 Cyber’s [https://twitter.com/MACH37cyber] man