Posts tagged Vulnerability Management

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.

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.

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.

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: Jul. 23, 2021

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 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

2 min Emergent Threat Response

ForgeRock Access Manager/OpenAM Pre-Auth Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2021-35464): What You Need To Know

On June 29, 2021, researcher Michael Stepankin (@artsploit) posted details of a pre-auth remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, CVE-2021-35464, in ForgeRock Access Manager identity and access management software that front-ends web applications and remote access solutions in many enterprises.

4 min Vulnerability Management

InsightVM Release Announcement: Global Dashboard Filters

InsightVM users have been able to create dashboards, add different visualizations in the form of cards and apply filters to these cards. Rapid7 also provided dashboard templates which enabled users to create views focusing on scenarios

3 min Vulnerability Management

Attack Surface Analysis Part 1: Vulnerability Scanning

In this three-part series, we’ll explore key considerations and strategies for choosing an attack surface analysis strategy. We’ll start with vulnerability assessment below.

8 min Vulnerability Disclosure

Akkadian Provisioning Manager Multiple Vulnerabilities Disclosure (Fixed)

Researchers discovered a trio of vulnerabilities in the Akkadian Provisioning Manager version 4.50.18.

5 min Vulnerability Management

Patch Tuesday - June 2021

It is another low volume Patch Tuesday this month as Microsoft releases fixes for 50 vulnerabilities. This should not diminish the importance of speedily applying the updates. 6 of the vulnerabilities being patched this month are 0-days under active exploitation (CVE-2021-31955 [https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2021-31955], CVE-2021-31956 [https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2021-31956], CVE-2021-33739 [https://msrc.microsoft.com/updat

4 min Vulnerability Disclosure

CVE-2021-3198 and CVE-2021-3540: MobileIron Shell Escape Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

Discovered by Rapid7 researcher William Vu, Ivanti MobileIron Core versions 10.7.0.1-9 and 11.0.0.1-3 suffer from 2 restricted-shell escape vulnerabilities.