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3 min Haxmas

The Importance of Updating and Patching Your New Electronic Presents

Regardless of the type of device under your tree, here are some quick and easy things to look for and change to help better secure your holiday gifts.

3 min Podcast

Building a Daily Threat Simulation Tool with Todd Beebe

In our latest episode of Security Nation, we sat down to talk with Todd Beebe about the automated threat simulation system that he built for his current employer.

5 min InsightAppSec

Automating Application Security Testing Within Your Atlassian Bamboo Pipelines

Rapid7 is excited to announce a new plugin for Atlassian Bamboo with the goal of integrating InsightAppSec into the software development life cycle (SDLC).

3 min Metasploit

Metasploit Wrap-Up: Dec. 13, 2019

Powershell Express Delivery The web_delivery module is often used to deliver a payload during post exploitation by quickly firing up a local web server. Since it does not write anything on target’s disk, payloads are less likely to be caught by anti-virus protections. However, since Microsoft added Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI)

3 min Application Security

The Most Commonly Exploited Web Application Vulnerabilities in a Production Environment

In this blog, we discuss the most exploited web application vulnerabilities, and how you can avoid them in your development process.

3 min Security Operations (SOC)

Building a Culture of Security Awareness: How to Use Performance Metrics to Communicate SOC Effectiveness Throughout Your Org

In this blog, we break down which SOC performance metrics to report to your organization and how to measure your impact.

3 min InsightConnect

Global Artifacts Now Available in InsightConnect

Rapid7 is excited to announce the release of Global Artifacts to enhance the capabilities provided by InsightConnect, Rapid7’s SOAR solution.

4 min IoT

IoT Vuln Disclosure: Children's GPS Smart Watches (R7-2019-57)

In a recent IoT hacking training exercise, Rapid7 penetration testers set out to find vulnerabilities in a number of children's GPS-enabled smart watches.

2 min Patch Tuesday

Patch Tuesday - December 2019

Today we come to the end of 2019's monthly Microsoft Patch Tuesday (also known as Update Tuesday). This Christmas, Microsoft presents us with 36 vulnerabilities (that's two less than this time last year!) and no new vulnerabilities from Adobe for Adobe Flash. Unfortunately, despite a light month, there's still action to be taken. CVE-2019-1458

12 min Labs

How I Shut Down a (Test) Factory with a Single Layer 2 Packet

In this blog, we discuss how a Denial of Service (DoS) bug could crash all Beckhoff PLCs running the Profinet protocol stack if an attacker gains access.

3 min Metasploit

Metasploit Wrap-Up: 12/6/19

Management delegation of shells Onur ER contributed the Ajenti auth username command injection exploit module for the vulnerability Jeremy Brown discovered and published a PoC for on 2019-10-13 (EDB 47497) against Ajenti version 2.1.31. Ajenti is an open-source web-based server admin panel written in Python and JS. The application allows admins to remotely perform a variety of server management tasks. The ex

3 min Application Security

Hidden Helpers: Security-Focused HTTP Headers to Protect Against Vulnerabilities

In our second installment of the 'Hidden Helpers' series, we discuss security-focused HTTP headers and how they can protect against vulnerabilities.

3 min InsightIDR

InsightIDR Now Available for Purchase in AWS Marketplace

Rapid7 is excited to announce that InsightIDR, our security information and event management (SIEM) offering, is now available in the AWS Marketplace.

8 min Podcast

Discovering a New Path in Asset Discovery: A Q&A with Metasploit Founder HD Moore

In honor of the 10-year anniversary of Rapid7’s acquisition of Metasploit, our latest episode of Security Nation features an interview with its founder, HD Moore.

2 min Threat Intel

Kilos: The Dark Web’s Newest – and Most Extensive – Search Engine

Kilos allows buyers to search for products across numerous dark web sites.