Posts by Mark Hamill

2 min Application Security

Securing Your Web App, One Robot at a Time

Modern web apps are two things: complex, and under persistent attack.

5 min Events

How We Used Data Science Magic to Predict Key RSA 2020 Themes and Takeaways

As our team discussed our traditional RSA round-up blog, we started to wonder how easy it would be to predict those key themes before the conference even kicked off.

3 min Application Security

Single-Page Applications: The Journey So Far

While modern web application technology has made apps more useful, it's also made them harder to secure.

5 min InsightAppSec

New Features: Rapid7 Launches Public API For InsightAppSec

Rapid7 is pleased to announce the newest addition to your application security toolkit on the Rapid7 Insight platform: the public API in our DAST solution, InsightAppSec.

3 min InsightAppSec

Scan Management with InsightAppSec: There’s More to Application Security than Long Lists of Vulnerabilities

Knowing what you are scanning, how often, and with how much success is vital to knowing your vulnerability data is accurate, up-to-date, and reflects your security position. InsightAppSec can help.

2 min Application Security

New InsightAppSec Releases: Compliance Reports and the AppSec Toolkit

Things are always brewing in Rapid7 product development. Today, we’re excited to announce several exciting new features in InsightAppSec, our cloud-powered application security testing solution for modern web apps [https://www.rapid7.com/products/insightappsec/]. These include: * Custom reports for PCI, HIPAA, SOX, and OWASP 2017 compliance requirements * PDF report generation * The Rapid7 AppSec Toolkit * Macro Recorder * Traffic Viewer * RegEx Builder * Swagger/Rest API Utilit

2 min Windows

Nexpose Remote Registry Activation for Windows

The Windows Registry is a database which stores all settings for a Windows system, e.g. hardware, software installed, Windows updates installed and preferences for users and their applications.  During normal day to day use a standard user will inadvertently push changes into this database when they update the system, add/remove applications and so on. Remote Registry is a Windows service which allows a non-local user to read or make changes to the registry on your Windows system when they are

3 min Nexpose

Have JBoss, Jenkins, WebLogic, WebSphere based applications? Brace yourself, they've got an unwanted Christmas present for you!

Java based server applications are prevalent throughout most corporate networks.  Thousands, if not millions, of applications are deployed using JBoss, Jenkins, WebLogic and WebSphere - so when a vulnerability affecting the underlying technology pops up, the impact can be significant.  A vulnerability was recently discovered affecting any Java application which can receive data back from users, allowing malicious actors to insert unsafe data as it attempts to ingest the information.  The applica