4 min
Threat Intel
How Cybercriminals Use Pinterest to Run Fraud Scams
There are a variety of scams hackers can run on Pinterest, but for this post, we’ll focus on fraud and financial scams.
5 min
Threat Intel
How to Automate Identifying and Take Down Malicious Social Media Profiles
Here is how Rapid7 has automated the process of identifying and taking down fake social media profiles to help companies proactively identify these scams.
1 min
Metasploit
Top 3 Takeaways from "7 Ways to Make Your Penetration Tests More Productive" Webcast
Earlier this week we heard from ckirsch
[https://community.rapid7.com/people/ckirsch], Senior Product Marketing Manager
for Metasploit at Rapid7, on the pressure penetration testers are facing. (Hint:
it's a lot!). With the increase in high profile breaches and their costs, more
and more emphasis is being put on the pen tester and security in general. Read
on if you'd like to get the top takeaways from this week's webcast so that you
aren't left in the dark about, "7 Ways to Make Your Penetratio
2 min
Events
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
1 min
Metasploit
Webcast: Decrease Your Risk of a Data Breach - Effective Security Programs with Metasploit
Thanks for the many CISOs and security engineers who attended our recent
webcast, in which I presented some practical advice on how to leverage
Metasploit to conduct regular security reviews that address current attack
vectors. While Metasploit is often used for penetration testing projects, this
presentation focuses on leveraging Metasploit for ongoing security assessments
that can be achieved with a small security team to reduce the risk of a data
breach.
This webcast is now available for o
2 min
Microsoft
Microsoft Patch Tuesday - November 2011
November's Microsoft Patch Tuesday contains four bulletins: one “critical”, two
“importants”, and one “moderate”. The majority of these bulletins relate to
Microsoft's later versions of the OS, implying that the flaws they address were
possibly introduced with Windows Vista. Generally more vulnerabilities are found
in earlier versions of the OS, so this month is unusual.
The critical bulletin – MS11-083 – is a TCP/IP based, specifically UDP,
vulnerability which affects Vista, Windows 7, Server