3 min
Cybersecurity
5 Types of Cybersecurity Attacks to Watch Out for This Black Friday and Cyber Monday
With the holiday season right around the corner, here are five types of cybersecurity attacks to be wary of during Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping.
3 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Wrap-Up: 11/22/19
Payload payday
As we blogged about yesterday
, a new form of payload that is compiled directly from C when generated was
added by space-7 . We hope this is only the first
step in a journey of applying the myriad tools that obfuscate C programs to our
core payloads, so be sure to check out all the nifty workings of the code! If
that wasn't enough, we also got a pair of payloads written f
3 min
InsightConnect
How SMBs Can Decrease Vulnerabilities and Incident Response Time with Automation
In this blog, we discuss how Security Automation can free up time and resources for people to do more valuable, creative work.
7 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Shellcode Grows Up: Encrypted and Authenticated C Shells
Introducing encrypted, compiled payloads in Metasploit Framework 5
1 min
InsightConnect
InsightConnect Announces New Plugin for Microsoft Teams
Rapid7 is excited to announce a new plugin between InsightConnect and Microsoft Teams that helps you collaborate, notify, and drive your workflows.
3 min
InsightAppSec
How Our New Jenkins Integration for InsightAppSec Enables DevSecOps Collaboration
Rapid7 is excited to announce the release of an integration to integrate InsightAppSec within Jenkins to improve release cycles and reduce vulnerabilities.
3 min
Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrap-Up 11/15/19
Pulse Secure VPN exploit modules, a notable BlueKeep exploit reliability improvement, and an overhaul of MSF's password cracking integration, including new support for hashcat.
3 min
Public Policy
What Is Texas Senate Bill 820, and How Will It Affect Your School District?
In this post, we share how SB 820 will affect your school and district, and how you can respond by selecting a framework to improve your security program.
6 min
We Don’t Want White Font: Office Macros, Evasion, and Malicious Self-Reference
We identified the use of a document that leverages malformed headers, white fonts, and embedded VBA macros that execute the document’s contents via WScript.
5 min
Security Operations (SOC)
How to Develop a Common Language for Security Buy-In Across Your Business
In this blog, we break-down what keeps organizations from advancing their security programs, and how businesses can establish security priorities.
3 min
Patch Tuesday
Patch Tuesday - November 2019
November's Patch Tuesday is upon us and, this month, Microsoft addressed 74
vulnerabilities of which one Internet Explorer vulnerability (CVE-2019-1429
) has been seen under active exploitation. By prioritizing the released
Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer patches, the door to 58 of the 74
vulnerabilities will be closed off. Also, for the second month in a row, this
Patch Tuesday sees an absent security upd
3 min
IoT
IoT Security and Risk: What Is It, Where Is It Heading, and How Do We Embrace It?
In this blog, we discuss what security professionals should be doing to secure their IoT devices and where companies often go wrong with IoT security.
4 min
InsightIDR
Be Audit You Can Be, Part 2: How to Parse Out Fields in Your Logs
In this blog, we take a look at how InsightIDR’s Custom Data Parsing tool can make quick work of parsing out those interesting fields in the logs.
2 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Wrap-Up: Nov. 8, 2019
Config R Us
Many versions of network management tool rConfig are vulnerable to
unauthenticated command injection, and contributor bcoles
added a new exploit module
for targeting those
versions. Present in v3.9.2 and prior, this vulnerability centers around the
install directory not being automatically cleaned up following software
installation, leaving behind a PHP file that can be utilized to execute
arbitr
2 min
#Rapid7GivesBack Month: Moose That Drive Impact Together
At Rapid7, we are committed to giving back to the community and making an impact together through #Rapid7GivesBack month.