Posts by boB Rudis

3 min COVID-19

Optimizing Security in the Work-From-Home Era

In this blog, we discuss how to optimize security during the work-from-home era.

4 min Vulnerability Management

May 2020 Cisco Remote Vulnerabilities Guidance

Cisco has posted patches for 34 vulnerabilities on May 6, 2020, with half a dozen that require your immediate attention.

5 min Research

CVE-2020-12271: Sophos XG Firewall Pre-Auth SQL Injection Vulnerability Remediation Guidance and Exposure Overview

On April 22, Sophos received a report documenting a suspicious field value visible in the management interface of an XG Firewall.

9 min Research

Oh, Behave! Who Made It to Rapid7 Labs' Naughty List(s) in 2019?

The Labs team thought it might be fun to give folks a glimpse into who made it to some of our naughtiest lists in 2019 based on insights gleaned through our research projects.

4 min Research

Cisco Self-Signed Certificate Expiration on Jan. 1, 2020: What You Need to Know

Cisco released Field Notice 70489 this week making owners of a wide range of Cisco devices of an impending certificate expiration issue.

2 min Research

What a Difference a Year Makes: Revisiting Our Inaugural Fortune 500 ICER One Year Later

It's now been a year since we released our first Fortune 500 ICER, so we decided to take a quick look at a key control, DMARC, to look for improvements.

4 min Vulnerability Management

CVE-2019-15846 Privileged Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in the Exim Mailer: What You Need to Know

On Sept. 6, the Exim development team released a patch for CVE-2019-15846, which fixed a privileged, unauthenticated RCE weakness in its popular internet email server software.

2 min Vulnerability Management

August 2019 Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDP) Patches: What You Need to Know

A new set of vulnerabilities in RDP impact every modern version of Windows. Here's what you need to know.

3 min Vulnerability Management

BlueKeep Exploits May Be Coming: Our Observations and Recommendations

Rapid7 Labs has observed a significant uptick in malicious RDP activity since the release of CVE-2019-0708 (aka “BlueKeep”).

5 min Research

Industry Cyber-Exposure Report: FTSE 250+

Today, Rapid7 released our third Industry Cyber-Exposure Report, examining the overall exposure of the companies listed in the FTSE 250 index.

3 min Windows

Microsoft Windows RDP Network Level Authentication Bypass (CVE-2019-9510)

CERT/CC has released an advisory regarding discovered behavior in the Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), which can allow an attacker to bypass the lock screen on some remote sessions.

5 min Ransomware

WannaCry, Two Years On: Current Threat Landscape

In this blog, we take a look at the current attacker landscape related to EternalBlue and ransomware, along with some lessons that have not been learned since WannaCry.

1 min Research

Confluence Unauthorized RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2019-3396): What You Need to Know

Atlassian was notified in late February about a remote code execution (RCE) flaw in their Confluence and Data Center products and issued an alert with a patch on March 20, 2019.

2 min Research

Apache HTTP Server Privilege Escalation (CVE-2019-0211): What You Need to Know

The joke was on roughly 2 million servers on Monday (April 1!), as the Apache Foundation released a patch for a privilege escalation bug (CVE-2019-0211) in Apache HTTP Server 2.4 releases 2.4.17–2.4.38.

4 min Research

Rapid7 Introduces Industry Cyber-Exposure Report: ASX 200

Today, Rapid7 released our second Industry Cyber-Exposure Report, examining the overall exposure of the ASX 200 family of companies.