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6 min InsightIDR

What's New in InsightIDR: Q4 2021 in Review

This post offers a closer look at some of the recent releases in InsightIDR, our extended detection and response (XDR) solution, from Q4 2021.

4 min Hacky Holidays 2021

2022 Cybersecurity Predictions: The Experts Clear Off the Crystal Ball

In keeping with our yearly tradition, we sat down with some experts at Rapid7 and across the industry to get their 2022 cybersecurity predictions.

2 min Hacky Holidays 2021

Rapid7 2021 Wrap-Up: Highlights From a Year of Empowering the Protectors

We worked harder than ever in 2021 to help protectors keep their organization's infrastructure secure. Here's a rundown of some of the biggest moments.

6 min Hacky Holidays 2021

Metasploit 2021 Annual Wrap-Up

Like years past, 2021 brought some surprises and had its shared of celebrity vulnerabilities. Here's are the Metasploit highlights from last year.

6 min Hacky Holidays 2021

5 Security Projects That Are Giving Back

From white-hat hackers to those volunteering their time to make the internet a safer, more inclusive space, we've highlighted a few security-related projects that exemplify the spirit of giving back.

4 min MITRE ATT&CK

Sharing the Gifts of Cybersecurity – Or, a Lesson From My First Year Without Santa

You know who some of the best Santas on Earth are? The cybersecurity community.

3 min Application Security

Test for Log4Shell With InsightAppSec Using New Functionality

In this blog, we share how Rapid7 customers can test for Log4Shell with InsightAppSec.

3 min Metasploit

Metasploit Wrap-Up: Dec. 17, 2021

A new Log4Shell / Log4j scanner module for Metasploit, a new WordPress module, and multiple enhancements and bug fixes

14 min Log4Shell

The Everyperson’s Guide to Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228)

This blog is for everyone who wants to understand what’s going on with the Log4Shell vulnerability in Log4j and why the internet seems to be on fire again.

3 min Application Security

How to Protect Your Applications Against Log4Shell With tCell

Let’s walk through the various ways tCell can help our customers protect against Log4Shell attacks.

7 min Vulnerability Management

Patch Tuesday - December 2021

This month’s Patch Tuesday comes in the middle of a global effort to mitigate Apache Log4j CVE-2021-44228.

3 min Threat Intel

Log4Shell Makes Its Appearance in Hacker Chatter: 4 Observations

The Rapid7 Threat Intelligence team is tracking the attacker's-eye view on Log4Shell and the related chatter on the clear, deep, and dark web.

8 min InsightVM

Using InsightVM to Find Apache Log4j CVE-2021-44228

How to use InsightVM or Nexpose to detect exposure to Log4Shell CVE-2021-44228 in your environment, plus additional detail about how our various vulnerability checks work under the hood.

3 min Emergent Threat Response

Update on Log4Shell’s Impact on Rapid7 Solutions and Systems

Like the rest of the security community, we have been internally responding to the critical remote code execution vulnerability in Apache’s log4j Java library (a.k.a. Log4Shell).

7 min Risk Management

Driver-Based Attacks: Past and Present

In our analysis of CVE-2021-21551, a write-what-where vulnerability in a Dell driver, we found that Dell’s update didn’t fix the write-what-where condition but only limited access to administrative users.