3 min
Penetration Testing
This One Time on a Pen Test, Part 1: Curiosity Didn’t Kill the Cat—Honesty Did
As part of a penetration test, I worked with the client to craft an engagement that would evaluate their employee and technology preparedness against a sophisticated, targeted phishing and vishing attack.
4 min
Penetration Testing
Under the Hoodie: Which Vulns Are Being Exploited by Attackers (and Our Pen Testers) in 2018?
Software vulnerabilities are at the core of pen testing—and our "Under the Hoodie" report provides insights and advice one can only get in the trenches.
3 min
IoT
Enhancing IoT Security Through Research Partnerships
Securing IoT devices requires a proactive security approach to test both devices and the IoT product ecosystem. To accomplish this, consider setting up a research partnership.
5 min
Penetration Testing
Password Tips from a Pen Tester: Taking the Predictability Out of Common Password Patterns
Humans are predictable. As unique as we like to think we all are, our actions tend to be similar—and our choices when creating a password are no different.
4 min
Penetration Testing
CIS Critical Security Control 20: Measure Your Security Standing with Penetration Tests and Red Team Exercises
Protecting yourself from threats requires consistently asking yourself whether your security program is working as designed. Critical Control 20 covers pen tests and Red Team exercises.
2 min
Penetration Testing
Under the Hoodie 2018: Lessons from a Season of Penetration Testing
Today, I’m excited to announce the release of our 2018 edition of Under the Hoodie: Lessons from a Season of Penetration Testing by the Rapid7 Global Services team, along with me, Tod Beardsley and Kwan Lin.
2 min
Penetration Testing
Password Tips from a Pen Tester: What is Your Company’s Default Password?
Welcome back to Password Tips From a Pen Tester.
The first day on the job: We fill out all the requisite paperwork for Human
Resources and get a computer and our network password. That password is often
something easy to remember, and is often the same for every new employee. It
might be Welcome1, ChangeMe! or one of our old favorites, the SeasonYear (ie.
Summer2018). If a new employee is having trouble signing in for the first time
and they call the help desk, they can easily get the help they
5 min
Penetration Testing
How to Build Your Own Caller ID Spoofer: Part 2
In Part 1 [/2018/05/24/how-to-build-your-own-caller-id-spoofer-part-1/], we
talked about the need for organizations to test their security programs by
performing social-engineering campaigns with their employees so they can
understand employee susceptibility to these kinds of tactics, the potential
impact to the organization of this kind of attack, and develop methods of
defending against a real attack. We spoke about the need for accurately
simulating threat actors by setting up an Asterisk PBX
7 min
Penetration Testing
How to Create a Secure and Portable Kali Installation
The following is a guest post from Rapid7 customer Bo Weaver.
Hi, everyone. I’m Bo, a penetration tester at CompliancePoint (and also a
customer of Rapid7). If you’re just getting started in penetration testing
[https://www.rapid7.com/fundamentals/penetration-testing/], or are simply
interested in the basics, this blog is for you.
An Intro to Kali
Kali Linux is an open source project that is maintained and funded by Offensive
Security [https://www.offensive-security.com/], a provider of inform
3 min
Penetration Testing
Password Tips From a Pen Tester: Common Patterns Exposed
When my colleagues and I are out on penetration tests, we have a fixed amount of
time to complete the test. Efficiency is important. Analyzing password data like
we’re doing here helps pen testers better understand the likelihood of password
patterns and choices, and we use that knowledge to our advantage when we perform
penetration testing [https://www.rapid7.com/fundamentals/penetration-testing/]
service engagements at Rapid7.
In my experience, most password complexity policies require at l
6 min
Penetration Testing
How to Build Your Own Caller ID Spoofer: Part 1
Purpose
Organizations with mature security programs often test their own internal
awareness programs by performing social engineering campaigns (e.g., telephone
pretexting) on their personnel. These may include hiring third-party consulting
companies as well as performing internal tests. These tests should strive to be
as real-world as possible in order to accurately simulate a malicious actor and
learn from employees’ reactions and ascertain the level of risk they pose to the
organization.
Spo
3 min
Penetration Testing
Password Tips From a Pen Tester: 3 Passwords to Eliminate
Every week, Rapid7 conducts penetration testing services for organizations that
cracks hundreds—and sometimes thousands—of passwords. Our current password trove
has more than 500,000 unique passwords that have been collected over the past
two years. Where do these come from? Some of them come from Windows domain
controllers and databases such as MySQL or Oracle; some of them are caught on
the wire using Responder [https://github.com/lgandx/Responder-Windows], and some
are pulled out of memory wi
4 min
Penetration Testing
Metasploit MinRID Option
We’ve added a new option to the smb_lookupsid Metasploit module
[https://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/auxiliary/scanner/smb/smb_lookupsid]. You can
now specify your starting RID.
Wait, What Does This Module Do Again?
As a penetration tester, one of the first things I try to do on an internal
network is enumerate all of the domain users so that I can perform login attacks
against them. It would be a noteworthy risk if we could do that anonymously,
because that means that any malicious actor who can
4 min
Penetration Testing
IoT Security Testing Methodology
By
Deral Heiland IoT - IoT Research Lead Rapid7
Nathan Sevier - Senior Consultant Rapid7
Chris Littlebury - Threat Assessment Manage Rapid7
End-to-end ecosystem methodology
When examining IoT technology, the actionable testing focus and methodology is
often applied solely to the embedded device. This is short sighted and
incomplete. An effective assessment methodology should consider the entire IoT
solution or as we refer to it, the IoT Product Ecosystem. Every interactive
component that makes
3 min
Metasploit
Exploiting Macros via Email with Metasploit Pro Social Engineering
Currently, phishing is seen as one of the largest infiltration points for
businesses around the globe, but there is more to social engineering than just
phishing. Attackers may use email and USB keys to deliver malicious files to
users in the hopes of gaining access to an organization's network. Users that
are likely unaware that unsolicited files, such as a Microsoft Word document
with a macro, may be malicious and can be a major risk to an organization.
Metasploit Pro [https://www.rapid7.com/