Posts tagged Vulnerability Management

Cybercriminals Selling Access to Compromised Networks: 3 Surprising Research Findings

To help fend off network compromise events and curb breach sales, we decided to analyze why and how criminals sell their network access.

5 min Cybersecurity

Fortinet FortiWeb OS Command Injection

An OS command injection vulnerability in FortiWeb's management interface can allow a remote, authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system.

3 min Cybersecurity

When One Door Opens, Keep It Open: A New Tool for Physical Security Testing

We’ve come up with a neat little device that pentesters can use to recreate the thought process of attackers — and help organizations outsmart them.

3 min Incident Response

Energize Your Incident Response and Vulnerability Management With Crowdsourced Automation Workflows

Bringing the spirit of open source to security workflow automation can help you detect and address breaches quickly, before they become major incidents.

10 min Cybersecurity

Reforming the UK’s Computer Misuse Act

The CMA is the UK’s anti-hacking law, and we've provided feedback on the issues we see with the legislation.

6 min Patch Tuesday

Patch Tuesday - August 2021

Hot off the press, it’s another issue of the Patch Tuesday blog! While the number of vulnerabilities is low this month, there are a number of high risk items administrators will want to patch right away including a few that will require additional remediation steps. This Patch Tuesday also includes updates for three vulnerabilities that were publicly disclosed earlier this month. Let’s jump in. Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability aka HiveNightmare/SeriousSAM https://msrc.microsoft.com/

11 min Public Policy

Hack Back Is Still Wack

The appeal of hack back is easy to understand, but that doesn't make the idea workable. Here, we outline why Rapid7 is against the authorization of private-sector hack back.

3 min Virtual Vegas

Black Hat 2021: Rapid7 Experts Share Key Day 2 Takeaways

Here we are again, back for another day of Rapid7 expert debriefings and analysis for some of the most talked-about Black Hat sessions of this year.

8 min Ransomware

Slot Machines and Cybercrime: Why Ransomware Won't Quit Pulling Our Lever

Ransomware remains a significant problem, partly because the incentives for everyone, including victims, are there to increase the number of ransomware attacks.

3 min Virtual Vegas

Black Hat 2021: Rapid7 Experts Share Key Day 1 Takeaways

OK, no big deal, we know how this goes. Once again, many of us are attending Black Hat [https://www.blackhat.com/us-21/] in a virtual capacity as COVID-19 meanders its way out of our lives. The good news is that there’s an actual live component again this year in Las Vegas, and that’s progress. Here’s hoping that next year the pandemic will be more firmly in the rearview and any remaining travel trepidation will be a “2021 thing.” So flip the on-switch to some neon lights if you got ‘em, and l

7 min Ransomware

The Ransomware Task Force: A New Approach to Fighting Ransomware

The Institute for Security and Technology put together a comprehensive Ransomware Task Force (RTF) to identify new approaches to shift the dynamics of ransomware and reduce opportunities for attackers.

4 min Metasploit

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Now I Control Your Resource Planning Servers Sage X3 is a resource planning product designed by Sage Group which is designed to help established businesses plan out their business operations. But what if you wanted to do more than just manage resources? What if you wanted to hijack the resource server itself? Well wait no more, as thanks to the work of Aaron Herndon [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-herndon-54079b5a/], Jonathan Peterson [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-p-004b76a1/], Will

3 min Detection and Response

Accelerating SecOps and Emergent Threat Response with the Insight Platform

Efficiency and streamlined operations are two areas where our team will continue to focus efforts in order to deliver value across Rapid7’s growing best-in-class portfolio, while enabling cross capability experiences that improve security team effectiveness.

3 min InsightVM

What’s New in InsightVM: Q2 2021 in Review

Here is a rundown of new features and functionality launched in Q2 2021 for InsightVM and the Insight Platform.

9 min Vulnerability Management

Patch Tuesday - July 2021

Microsoft has patched another 117 CVEs [https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/releaseNote/2021-Jul], returning to volumes seen in early 2021 and most of 2020. It would appear that the recent trend of approximately 50 vulnerability fixes per month was not indicative of a slowing pace. This month there were 13 vulnerabilities rated Critical with nearly the rest being rated Important. Thankfully, none of the updates published today require additional steps to remediate, so administrators should b