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Metasploit
Tech Preview Feedback: Vulnerability Validation in Metasploit Pro 4.8
By guest blogger and Rapid7 customer David Henning, Director Network Security,
Hughes Network Systems
A few weeks ago, Rapid7 asked me to participate in the Metasploit Tech Preview
for 2013. I've participated in a couple of other product previews in the past. I
like the interaction with the Rapid7 development teams. This tech preview was
smooth and it was easy to participate. Previous testing sessions required
interactions over e-mail and there was
some associated lag. This preview was mana
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Metasploit
Don't Get Blindsided: Better Visibility Into User and Asset Risks with Metasploit 4.8
Not having visibility can be dangerous in many situations. The new Metasploit
4.8 [https://www.rapid7.com/products/metasploit/download/] gives you better
visibility in four key areas:
* View phishing exposure in the context of the overall user risk
* See which vulnerabilities pose the biggest risk to your organization
* Have all host information at your fingertips when doing a pentest
* Discover the latest risks on your network with new exploits and other modules
See Phishing Exposure as O
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Metasploit
Learn to Pentest SAP with Metasploit As ERP Attacks Go Mainstream
This month, a security researcher disclosed that a version of the old banking
Trojan “Trojan.ibank” has been modified to look for SAP GUI installations, a
concerning sign that SAP system hacking has gone into mainstream cybercrime.
Once a domain of a few isolated APT attacks, SAP appears to be in the cross
hairs of hackers that know just how much sensitive data ERP systems house,
including financial, customer, employee and production data. With more than
248,500 customers in 188 countries, SAP
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Metasploit
Staying Stealthy: Passive Network Discovery with Metasploit
One of the first steps in your penetration test is to map out the network, which
is usually done with an active scan. In situations where you need to be stealthy
or where active scanning may cause instability in the target network, such as in
SCADA environments, you can run a passive network
scan to avoid detection and reduce disruptions. A passive network scan
stealthily monitors broadcast traffic to identify the IP addresses of hosts on
the network. By initially running a passive scan, you c
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Metasploit
Change the Theme, Get a Shell: Remote Code Execution with MS13-071
Recently we've added an exploit for MS13-071
[https://www.rapid7.com/db/vulnerabilities/windows-hotfix-ms13-071] to
Metasploit. Rated as "Important" by Microsoft, this remote code execution, found
by Eduardo Prado, for Windows XP and Windows 2003 environments is achieved by
handling specially crafted themes. In this blog post we would like to discuss
the vulnerability and give some helpful tips for exploiting it from Metasploit.
First of all, the bug occurs while handling the [boot] section on
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Metasploit
Weekly Update
Windows Meterpreter: Reloaded
If you've been around Metasploit for any length of time, you know that
Meterpreter is the preferred and de facto standard for manipulating a target
computer after exploit. While Meterpreter and Metasploit go hand-in-hand, we did
manage to get some code seperation between the two by breaking Windows
Meterpreter out to its own open source respository on GitHub
[https://github.com/rapid7/meterpreter].
As threatened in a previous blog post [/2013/09/05/weekly-update],
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Metasploit
Weekly Update: MSIE, GE Proficy, and handling Metasploit merge conflicts
Exploiting Internet Explorer (MS13-055)
This week, we open with a new IE exploit. This is a pretty recent patch (from
July, 2013), and more notably, it appears it was silently patched without
attribution to the original discoverer, Orange Tsai. So, if you're a desktop IT
admin, you will certainly want to get your users revved up to the latest patch
level. Thanks tons to Peter WTFuzz [https://twitter.com/WTFuzz] Vreugdenhil and
of course Wei sinn3r [https://twitter.com/_sinn3r] Chen for knocking
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Product Updates
Weekly Update: Apple OSX Privilege Escalation
Sudo password bypass on OSX
This week's update includes a nifty local exploit for OSX, the sudo bug
described in CVE-2013-1775. We don't have nearly enough of these Apple desktop
exploits, and it's always useful to disabuse the Apple-based cool-kids web app
developer crowd of the notion that their computing platform of choice is
bulletproof.
Joe Vennix [https://github.com/jvennix-r7], the principle author of this module,
is, in fact, of that very same Apple-based developer crowd, and usually bu
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Metasploit
Firewall Egress Filtering
Why And How You Should Control What's Leaving Your Network
Most companies have firewall rules that restrict incoming traffic, but not
everyone thinks to restrict data leaving the network. That's a shame, because a
few easy configurations can save you a lot of headaches.
Firewall egress filtering controls what traffic is allowed to leave the network,
which can prevent leaks of internal data and stop infected hosts from contacting
their command & control servers. NAT alone won't help you - you ac
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Product Updates
Weekly Update: Cooperative Disclosure and Assessing Joomla
Cooperative Disclosure
I'm in attendance this year at Rapid7's UNITED Security Summit, and the
conversations I'm finding myself in are tending to revolve around vulnerability
disclosure. While Metasploit doesn't traffic in zero-day vulnerabilities every
day, it happens often enough that we have a disclosure policy that we stick to
when we get a hold of newly uncovered vulnerabilities.
What's not talked about in that disclosure policy is the Metasploit exploit dev
community's willingness to help
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Metasploit
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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Metasploit
Metasploit Design Contest: So Much Win!
You may recall that back in May, we announced a Metasploit design contest
[/2013/05/03/metasploits-10th-anniversary-laptop-decal-design-competition] to
commemorate 10 years of Metasploit -- and now, it's time to announce the (many)
winners! Once again, the open source security community has blown me away with
your creativity, dedication, and subversive humor. We had a total of 118 designs
(most of which did not suck!) from 55 designers. Not bad for a nearly completely
hashtag-driven contest! In
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Metasploit
Good Exploits Never Die: Return of CVE-2012-1823
According to Parallels, "Plesk is the most widely used hosting control panel
solution, providing everything needed for creating and offering rich hosting
plans and managing customers and resellers, including an intuitive User
Interface for setting up and managing websites, email, databases, and DNS."
(source: Parallels [http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk/webhosters/]). On
Jun 05 kingcope shocked Plesk world by announcing a new 0 day which could allow
for remote command execution:
Accordi
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Metasploit
Metasploit Update: Those Sneaky IPMI Devices
IPMI, in my network?
This week's update features a set of tools for auditing your IPMI
infrastructure. "Phew, I'm glad I'm not one of those suckers," you might be
thinking to yourself. Well, the thing about IPMI (aka, the Intelligent Platform
Management Interface) is that it's just a skootch more esoteric than most
protocols, and even experienced server administrators may not be aware of it. Do
you use server hardware from IBM, Dell, or HP? Have you ever had to use IBM's
Remote Supervisor adapte
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Metasploit
A Penetration Tester's Guide to IPMI and BMCs
Introduction
Dan Farmer is known for his groundbreaking work [http://fish2.com/security/] on
security tools and processes. Over the last year, Dan has identified some
serious security issues [http://fish2.com/ipmi/] with the Intelligent Platform
Management Interface (IPMI) protocol and the Baseboard Management Controllers
(BMCs) that speak it. This post goes into detail on how to identify and test for
each of the issues that Dan identified, using a handful of free security tools.
If you are lo