2 min
InsightIDR
How to detect new server ports in use on your network
In this blog, we discuss how to detect new server ports in use on your network.
3 min
GDPR
GDPR Preparation March and April: Course Correct
Wow, how did March just happen? Living in a country that just fell apart like a
clown car because of snow, it’s still feeling decidedly wintery here in the UK,
and as a weather obsessed Brit I am fully looking forward to sunnier times. You
know, that single day sometime in August. By that time, we’ll have crossed the
border into the brave new world of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
, and like many of you, I am
curious as to what t
3 min
Threat Intel
Rapid7 Threat Report: Q4 2017 Q4 Threat Report and 2017 Wrap-up
Welcome to Rapid7’s Q4 report, featuring our first annual threat report wrap-up!
2017 Quarterly Threat Report: Q4 and 2017 Wrap-Up
Get the Full Report
We could not have picked a better year to start doing this, as 2017 was one for
the books. While we spent most of the year falling headfirst into a world where
nation-state tools are available for anyone to use, the worm re-emerged (now
evolved
2 min
Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup 3/16/18
Return of the GSoC!
The Metasploit project is proud to return to Google Summer of Code this year.
Student applications are open until March 27th, so there's still time to get in!
Coding begins on May 14th, and we're eager to hear what you'd like to see added
to Metasploit. Not only do you get to work on a cool project, but you'll get
paid too !
Need some inspiration? Check out our list of project ideas
2 min
Stateful WAF AKA the Bronze Age
The first post in this series kicked off our history series on the development
of web application firewalls
, with a discussion of
what the earliest technology was capable of. Early WAFs were based on pattern
recognition. That made them fast, but it also made it easy for attackers to
sidestep the rigid patterns that were the building blocks of the first-gen WAF.
If the problem is that stone age WAFs have stateless rules, then the obvious
3 min
Vulnerability Management
Rapid7 Named a Leader in Forrester Wave for Vulnerability Risk Management
Today, we’re excited to announce a major milestone for InsightVM
: Recognition as a Leader in The
Forrester Wave™: Vulnerability Risk Management, Q1 2018, earning top scores in
both the Current Offering and Strategy categories. We are proud of the
achievement not only because of years of hard work from our product team, but
also because we believe that it represents the thousands of days and nights
spent working with customers to understand the challen
4 min
Vulnerability Disclosure
R7-2018-01 (CVE-2018-5551, CVE-2018-5552): DocuTrac Office Therapy Installer Hard-Coded Credentials and Cryptographic Salt
DocuTrac QuickDoc & Office Therapy ships with a number of static accounts which are not disclosed to the end user.
2 min
Patch Tuesday
Patch Tuesday - March 2018
There are a lot of fixes this month
: Microsoft's updates include patches for 76 separate vulnerabilities, including
two critical Adobe Flash Player remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities
.
In fact all of this month's critical vulnerabilities are browser-related. This
is not surprising considering web brows
4 min
CIS Controls
CIS Critical Control 10: Data Recovery Capability
hope you enjoyed your stop at Center for Internet Security (CIS) Critical
Control 9: Limitation and Control of Network Ports, Protocols, and Services
! If you missed the previous stops on this journey, please check out our full
blog series on the CIS Top 20 Critical Controls
; each blog provides
educational information regarding the control of focus
3 min
Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup 3/9/18
With the Northeast U.S. getting hit with back-to-back nor’easters this week,
it’s probably a good idea to head back inside and wait it out until spring
arrives. So toss another log on the fire, grab a hot drink, raise a toast to
all
the folks making Metasploit awesome
, and catch
up on the latest!
It Goes to 11
While amplification attacks are nothing new, the memcached amplification attack
vector (reffered to as “memcrashed”
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CIS Controls
CIS Critical Control 9: Limitation and Control of Ports, Protocols, and Services
This is a continuation of our CIS Critical Control Series blog series. Need help
addressing these controls? See why SANS listed Rapid7 as the top solution
provider addressing the CIS top 20 controls
.
If you’ve ever driven on a major metropolitan highway system, you’ve seen it:
The flow of traffic is completely engineered. Routes are optimized to allow
travelers to reach their destinations as quickly as possible. Traffic laws
speci
5 min
Metasploit
Guest Post: Lurking in /lib
This is a guest post from a long-time Metasploit contributor and community
member. Over the next few months, Rapid7 will be publishing a series of guest
posts featuring unique perspectives on Metasploit Framework and highlighting
some of our community’s favorite functionality, hidden gems, and backstories.
Want to contribute an idea or a post? Reach out to communityrapid7.com.
Back in my day, you could get dinner, dessert, and ride the trolley home all for a nickel. Oh, and we used SVN for
2 min
InsightAppSec
How to Scan Your Own Application with the InsightAppSec Free Trial
We think this is pretty sweet news. You asked, we built it—now you can scan one
of your own applications with an InsightAppSec trial!
But before you start scanning your own application with the InsightAppSec free
trial , you’ll need to validate your
application’s domain. This requires adding a custom-generated meta tag to your
application’s root path.
Let’s get started.
When adding your app to the InsightAppSec free trial, you’ll be given an option
to
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Metasploit Weekly Wrapup
Metasploit Wrapup 2/23/18
More Servers Please
A new module by Pedro
Ribeiro combines vulnerabilities for certain firmware versions of AsusWRT, which
allows an unauthenticated user to enable a special command mode on the device.
When the command mode is enabled, the device spins up infosvr on UDP port 9999.
The great thing about infosvr is that you can construct UDP packets to have it
execute commands on your behalf…. as root.
Back in Windows Land
In case your
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InsightAppSec
Making the Dream Work: Teaming with Dev for Safer Production Apps
So you’ve read the reports outlining how important it is for developers and
security teams to work together to build web applications quickly and securely
, you’ve scoured the web and have researched the importance of building a web
application program at your organization
, perhaps even watched
some videos talking about the evolution of web applications an