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2 min Metasploit

Metasploit Wrap-Up: 8/21/20

Setting module options just got easier! Rapid7's own Dean Welch added a new option to framework called RHOST_HTTP_URL, which allows users to set values for multiple URL components, such as RHOSTS, RPORT, and SSL, by specifying a single option value. For example, instead of typing set RHOSTS example.com, set RPORT 5678, set SSL true, you can now accomplish the same thing with the command set RHOST_HTTP_URL

7 min NICER Reports

NICER Protocol Deep Dive: Internet Exposure of Telnet Services

In the first installment of our NICER Protocol Deep Dive blog series, we cover internet exposure of Telnet services.

5 min InsightVM

Automated External Sonar Scanning Workflow with InsightVM

In this blog post, we discuss an external scanning strategy that you will want to implement with your InsightVM deployment.

4 min Career Development

Join Team Moose: Become a Rapid7 BDR

The Business Development Representative (BDR) program at Rapid7 is an entry-level program that develops our next generation of successful sales professionals.

2 min InsightConnect

Stop Attackers in Their Tracks with Insight Agent Quarantine

Rapid7’s Insight Agent is lightweight software you can install on any asset—in the cloud or on-premises—to collect data from across your environment.

2 min Metasploit

Metasploit Wrap-Up: 8/14/20

vBulletin strikes again This week saw another vBulletin exploit released by returning community member Zenofex. This exploit module allows an unauthenticated attacker to run arbitrary PHP code or operating system commands on affected versions of the vBulletin web application. The vulnerability, which was also discovered by Zenofex, is identified as CVE-2020-7373 and is effectively a bypass for a previously patched vulnerabili

3 min SIEM

Data Ingestion and Data Digestion: What SIEM Log Consumption Tells Us About Modern Attack Patterns

From endpoints and VPN networks to cloud applications, the modern attack surface has expanded—but does your solution stack reflect this?

4 min Career Development

Three Things You Can Expect as an Intern at Rapid7

Are you a university student looking to jumpstart your career and gain some experience? Rapid7 has a wide range of opportunities for you to join our herd!

9 min Cloud Security

Augmenting Native Cloud Service Provider Security

Most organizations already have some level of cloud infrastructure services; infrastructure-as-a-service , platform-as-a-service, function-as-a-service or serverless—and as more workloads migrate to and are built on the cloud, the top cloud security concern for any organization is a data breach.

4 min Vulnerability Management

Patch Tuesday - August 2020

120 Vulnerabilities Patched in Microsoft's August 2020 Update Tuesday (2020-Aug Patch Tuesday) August 2020 brings along patches for 120 vulnerabilities within the standard set of Microsoft products (Windows, Office, Browsers, and Developer Tools such as .NET Framework, ASP.NET, and Visual Studio).  Among the crowd are two vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-1464 , and CVE-2020-1380

3 min Awards

Rapid7 Named a Leader in the 2020 Forrester Wave™ for Midsize Managed Security Services Providers, Q3 2020

Rapid7 is thrilled to be named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Midsize Managed Security Services Providers, Q3 2020!

3 min InsightVM

What’s New in InsightVM: H1 2020 in Review

Throughout the first half of the year, we released updates and features to help security teams work more effectively and efficiently in InsightVM.

9 min Events

Virtual Black Hat: Rapid7 Experts Share Key Takeaways from Day 2 Sessions

Our Rapid7 experts attended another day of incredible talks, and have plenty of key takeaways and insights to share about their Virtual Vegas sessions.

5 min Metasploit Weekly Wrapup

Metasploit Wrap-Up: 8/7/20

Metasploit 6 initial features and active development, the 2020 open-source security meetup (OSSM), four new modules, and the longest list of enhancements and fixes we've ever written in one sitting.

9 min Events

Virtual Black Hat: Rapid7 Experts Share Key Takeaways from Day 1 Sessions

Even from home, it can be tough to catch what you want to see at Black Hat, so we had our experts do the work for you as part of our Virtual Vegas event.