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3 min Cloud Security

2022 Cloud Misconfigurations Report: Cloud Security Breaches and Attack Trends

In the 2022 Cloud Misconfigurations Report, we reviewed 68 accounts of breaches from 2021. Let's take a brief look at some of the findings.

5 min Vulnerability Management

What's New in InsightVM and Nexpose: Q1 2022 in Review

The product updates our vulnerability management (VM) team has made to InsightVM and Nexpose in the last quarter will empower you to stay in charge — not the vulnerabilities.

2 min Metasploit

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: 4/15/22

Meterpreter Debugging A consistent message Metasploit hears from users is that debugging and general logging support could be improved. The gaps in functionality make it difficult for users to understand what happens when things go wrong and for new and existing developers to fix bugs and add new features. The Metasploit team has been trying to improve this in various parts of the framework, the most recent being Meterpreter. Meterpreter payloads now have additional debugging options that can be

3 min InsightAppSec

InsightAppSec and tCell Bring New DevSecOps Improvements in Q1

In Q1 2022, we've continued to improve InsightAppSec and tCell to help organizations shift left and automate security testing prior to deployment.

6 min Cloud Security

InsightCloudSec Supports the Recently Updated NSA/CISA Kubernetes Hardening Guide

The NSA and CISA recently updated their Kubernetes Hardening Guide. Here's how InsightCloudSec supports the updated guidance.

4 min Emergent Threat Response

CVE-2022-28810: ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus Authenticated Command Execution (Fixed)

On April 9, ManageEngine fixed CVE-2022-28810 with the release of ADSelfService Plus Build 6122.

11 min Vulnerability Management

Patch Tuesday - April 2022

From Defender to Windows, Office to Azure, this month’s Patch Tuesday has a large swath of Microsoft’s portfolio getting vulnerabilities fixed. 119 CVEs were addressed today, not including the 26 Chromium vulnerabilities that were fixed in the Edge browser.

4 min Research

CVE-2022-24527: Microsoft Connected Cache Local Privilege Escalation (Fixed)

On April 12, 2022, Microsoft published CVE-2022-24527, a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Connected Cache.

3 min XDR

3 Ways InsightIDR Users Are Achieving XDR Outcomes

Users of InsightIDR, Rapid7's cloud SIEM and XDR solution, are already making XDR outcomes a reality.

3 min Metasploit Weekly Wrapup

Metasploit Wrap-Up: 4/8/22

Five new modules targeting Windows, Linux, macOS, and more. Plus, updates to the Log4Shell scanner and a new Windows Meterpreter option to enable additional logging visible in DbgView

2 min Career Development

7 Rapid Questions: Meet Adrian Stewart, Aspiring Pilot Turned Product Manager

In this installment of 7 Rapid Questions, we talk to Adrian Stewart, a product manager working on InsightAppSec.

8 min Research

Lessons in IoT Hacking: How to Dead-Bug a BGA Flash Memory Chip

In this post, we cover how to dead-bug a flash memory chip to help aid your IoT hacking research.

4 min Rapid7 Culture

The Forecast Is Flipped: Flipping L&D in New Hire Training

The Rapid7 People Development team challenged convention and recently evolved the onboarding program to address the needs of our evolving business and the future of work.

3 min Managed Detection and Response (MDR)

MDR Plus Threat Intel: 414 New Detections in 251 Days (You’re Welcome)

Now, Threat Command’s threat intelligence platform (TIP) content is integrated with our leading detection and response products and services.

5 min InsightIDR

What's New in InsightIDR: Q1 2022 in Review

We highlight the updates we made to InsightIDR in Q1 2022 to help you save time while still leveling up your detection and response program.