5 min
Haxmas
Advice for the Lazy Family Sysadmin
With some careful choices, you can be a lazy family system administrator this holiday. Here’s my experience, along with some tips.
4 min
Haxmas
Once a Haxer, Always a Haxor
Like most hackers, I liked to take apart my holiday gifts as a kid. In this blog, I take apart Amazon's voice-controlled microwave oven to see how it works.
7 min
Haxmas
The New Shiny: Memorable Metasploit Moments of 2018
Happy HaXmas, friends. Metasploit turned 15 this year, and by all accounts, 2018 was pretty epic.
3 min
Haxmas
R7-2018-52: Guardzilla IoT Video Camera Hard-Coded Credential (CVE-2018-5560)
Most HaXmas posts are full of fun and frivolity, but this one is a routine vulnerability disclosure in a piece of IoT gear that you should know about.
4 min
Haxmas
The Return of Snapid Kevin to the North Pole
Santa has once again enlisted the help of his security consultant, Snapid Kevin, to evaluate his physical security. What will Snapid turn up?
3 min
Haxmas
The 12 Days of HaXmas: A Festive Blog Series Recapping Security in 2018
It’s the waning days of 2018, so it’s time to usher in our traditional end-of-year blog series, the 12 Days of HaXmas.
2 min
Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup 12/21/18
Safari Proxy Object Type Confusion
Metasploit committer timwr recently added a macOS
Safari RCE exploit module
based on a solution
that saelo
developed and used successfully at Pwn2Own 2018
.
saelo's exploit is a three-bug chain: a Safari RCE (CVE-2018-4233), a sandbox
13 min
Research
Rsunk your Battleship: An Ocean of Data Exposed through Rsync
Rapid7 Labs recently decided to take a fresh look at rsync, this time focusing on exposure of rsync globally on the public internet.
3 min
InsightVM
How to Use the InsightVM Policy Compliance Status Report to Measure Benchmark Configurations
Reports within InsightVM can help you demonstrate whether your systems stand up against compliance requirements.
3 min
AWS
Rapid7 Partners with AWS Security Hub for Deeper Vulnerability Reporting
Last month, we were thrilled to announce our integration with AWS Security Hub at AWS re:Invent.
7 min
InsightIDR
Windows Event Forwarding: The Best Thing You’ve Never Heard Of
This blog post will discuss how to get logs into your SIEM and create custom alerts to detect certain behaviors in those logs.
2 min
Research
Charting the Forthcoming PHPocalypse in 2019
This experiment began when Josh Frantz remarked that he would be curious about the potential exposure from the just-reached EOL date for PHP Version 7.0 and the forthcoming EOL date for PHP 5.6.
2 min
Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup 12/14/18
Backups that Cause Problems
hypn0s contributed a module
that exploits Snap
Creek’s Duplicator plugin for WordPress. Duplicator is a plugin that eases the
backup and migration of WordPress installations. For versions 1.2.40 and below,
Duplicator leaves behind a number of sensitive files, including one that gives
access to controlling the WordPress restoration process. Sending a POST request
to the now accessib
4 min
AWS
Securing Buckets with Amazon S3 Block Public Access
Amazon Web Services recently introduced a new security enhancement to its cloud storage service: Amazon S3 Block Public Access.
2 min
Metasploit
Metasploit Wrapup 12/7/18
If you are tired of all the snake memes and images we pushed out as we stood up support for python external modules over the last year or so, I have terrific news for you!