Posts tagged Events

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More SNMP Information Leaks: CVE-2014-4862 and CVE-2014-4863

Today, Rapid7 would like to disclose a pair of newly discovered vulnerabilities around consumer and SOHO-grade cable modems, the Arris DOCSIS 3.0 (aka, Touchstone cable modems) and Netmaster Wireless Cable Modems. Both exposures were discovered by Rapid7's Deral Percent_X [https://twitter.com/Percent_X] Heiland and independent researcher Matthew Kienow. The duo plan to discuss these and other common vulnerabilities and configuration issues at DerbyCon near the end of September. In the meantime,

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Metasploit Race to Root and Loginpalooza

Race to Root Unless you've gotten to this blog by freak accident, you are certain to be aware that next week is Black Hat USA 2014, and of course, we'll be there. You can find us at Booth #541, where we'll be running the Metasploit Race to Root, using the latest pre-release build of Metasploit Pro. Now, this is not just a contest to see who can get their badge scanned the fastest. Oh no. This is a real, hands-on micro-sized capture the flag competition, run by our capable and talented in-house

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Weekly Metasploit Update: Countdown to DEFCON

Don't Be (too) Naked in Vegas Wow, it's exactly two more weeks today until DEFCON. While Rapid7 has had a vendor presence at Black Hat for many years (at booth #541), this year is, I believe, the first time that we'll have a vendor table at DEFCON. I'm super stoked about both gigs, since the Black Hat booth will give us an opportunity to unload give away a fresh new batch of Metasploit T-Shirt Design contest [http://99designs.com/t-shirt-design/contests/metasploit-design-contest-375195/brief]

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Social-Engineer CTF Report Released

For the last five years, the team at Social-Engineer have been bringing one of the most exciting events to DEF CON - the Social Engineering Capture the Flag.  The contest was designed to help bring awareness to the world about how dangerous social engineering can be.  In our 5th year, the competition was fierce and the report is the best we have ever released. This year a pool of 10 men and 10 women, from diverse backgrounds and experience levels, tested their social engineering abilities again

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SecureNinjaTV Interview: Tod Beardsley About Metasploit 10th Anniversary

At Black Hat 2013 in Vegas this year, our very own Tod Beardsley was cornered by SecureNinja TV and social engineered into giving an interview. Here is the result - captured for eternity: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFHA5F2crFE&feature=youtu.be] Click here to download Metasploit Pro [https://www.rapid7.com/products/metasploit/download/]

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Rapid7 Wins Coveted SC Magazine Award for Best Vulnerability Management Tool

Thorsten George, VP of Worldwide of Marketing and Products for Agiliance on the left and Bernd Leger, VP of Marketing, Products & Solutions at Rapid7 on the right Sitting in a room of hundreds of industry leaders and security vendors, it was extremely gratifying to hear our name called and being asked on stage to receive one of the coveted SC Magazine Awards last night in San Francisco. Rapid7 won the prestigious “Best Vulnerability Management Tool” Award in the Reader's Trust Award Categor

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The Security Confab

On the homepage of the 5th Annual Security Confab, a sort of mission statement for the event is provided with a simple explanation of the meaning of the word “confab”: CONFAB [kuhn-fab]  -noun 1. a gathering to talk informally; converse; chat I think this is important. The event's main theme is “The Evolving Threat Landscape” and at Rapid7 we're pretty vocal about how important we think collaboration is in addressing this, so it's good to see and attend events that aim to create an opportunit

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Rapid7's high flying RSA party

Thanks to all of you who attended our party at Ruby Skye on Wednesday. We were overwhelmed by how many RSA delegates showed up: The club holds close to a thousand people, and we were operating at capacity for most of the night. Apologies if you had to wait in line for a few minutes! Have a great weekend and sleep off the RSA Conference buzz! Update: Just received this great picture taken by Travis Arnold at the party – thought you'd enjoy it!

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We weren't joking when we said "tattoos"!

Be careful what we wish for: In 2006, HD Moore wrote a blog post [/2006/08/27/metasploit-framework-30-beta-2] about a redesign of the Metasploit Project, announcing that the new graphics “will be featured on tee shirts, posters, and tattoos over the coming year.” Well, you guys took a little longer than we thought but we now have our first Metasploit tattoo! Initially, we thought Roy Morris (aka @soundwave1234 [http://twitter.com/soundwave1234]) was joking when he tweeted to @hdmoore [htt