Posts by Leo Varela

4 min Phishing

What You Can Learn from Our Successful Simulated Phishing Attack of 45 CEOs

I was recently invited to a cybersecurity event to raise awareness on phishing by simulating targeted campaigns against the CEO attendees. Here's how they fared.

4 min Metasploit

EternalBlue: Metasploit Module for MS17-010

This week's release of Metasploit [https://www.rapid7.com/products/metasploit] includes a scanner and exploit module for the EternalBlue vulnerability, which made headlines a couple of weeks ago when hacking group, the Shadow Brokers, disclosed a trove of alleged NSA exploits [https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2017/04/18/the-shadow-brokers-leaked-exploits-faq/] . Included among them, EternalBlue, exploits MS17-010 [https://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/windows/smb/ms17_010_eternalblue], a Wi

1 min Metasploit

Announcement: End-of-Life Metasploit 32-Bit Versions

UPDATE: With the release of version 4.15 on July 19, 2017, commercial Metasploit 32-bit platforms (Metasploit Pro, Metasploit Express, and Metasploit Community) no longer receive future product or content updates. These platforms are now obsolete and are no longer supported. Rapid7 announced the end of life of Metasploit Pro 32-bit versions for both Windows and Linux operating systems on July 5th, 2017.  This announcement applies to all editions: Metasploit Pro, Metasploit Express and Metasploi

2 min

Adaptive Security Overview

In Nexpose 6, we are introducing Adaptive Security, a smarter way to automate actions taken based on security incidents as they occur in your environment. The ultimate goal is to give back to security teams the time spent configuring tools to respond to a threat and automating the tedious and repetitive tasks taken to understand changes in the asset inventory and the threat landscape. With Adaptive Security, you can create workflows called automated actions that respond to new and existing asse

2 min AWS

The real challenge behind asset inventory

As the IT landscape evolves, and as companies diversify the assets they bring to their networks - including on premise, cloud and personal assets - one of the biggest challenges becomes maintaining an accurate picture of which assets are present on your network. Furthermore, while the accurate picture is the end goal, the real challenge becomes optimizing the means to obtain and maintain that picture current. The traditional discovery paradigm of continuous discovery sweeps of your whole network

4 min Release Notes

Configuration Assessment and Policy Management in Nexpose 5.2

We love our policy Dashboards. They are new, hot, intuitive, robust and really useful. In our latest release of Nexpose, version 5.2, we've made two major enhancements to our configuration assessment capabilities: * A policy overview dashboard: To understand the current status of compliance of configurations delivering a summary of the policy itself.A policy rule dashboard: To provide further details for a particular rule and the current compliance status for that rule. What makes th

4 min Javascript

Java API Client - How to Augment It and Share with the Community

The prerequisite is that you get the client: clee-r7/nexpose_java_api · GitHub [https://github.com/clee-r7/nexpose_java_api] This blog post will show you how to augment the java api client and use it in 4 easy steps. The Java API client uses XML templates to generate requests. Browse to the src/org/rapid7/nexpose/api folder within the API source code, you will see the templates for the currently supported API client requests. i.e:  AssetGroupSaveRequest.xml. There are currently 2 versions of