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5 min Attack Surface Security

Understanding your Attack Surface: Different Approaches to Asset Discovery

In this post, we’ll delve intoprocess of discovering assets. We cannot secure what we cannot see so getting this piece right is foundational to the success of your ASM program. This blog will explore four different methods of asset discovery starting with the most basic, deployed software agents.

1 min IoT

Root Access for Data Control: A DEF CON IoT Village Story

Our perennial IoT hacking presenter, Principal Security Researcher, IoT, Deral Heiland, along with Rapid7 pentest team members, showed attendees many methods of extracting firmware from IoT devices and manipulating the systems in the name of control and operations.

2 min Rapid7 Culture

Test Driving a New Benefit Programme in Belfast

Rapid7’s electric vehicle scheme was rolled out in late 2023 for Belfast employees. The programme enables employees to lease an electric car via their employer and pay for it on a salary sacrifice basis, offering substantial tax and national insurance savings.

13 min Vulnerability Management

Patch Tuesday - October 2024

5 zero-days. Configuration Manager pre-auth RCE. RDP RPC pre-auth RPC. Winlogon EoP. Hyper-V container escape. curl o-day RCE late patch. Management console zero-day RCE. Windows 11 lifecycle changes.

2 min Metasploit

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 10/04/2024

New module content (3) cups-browsed Information Disclosure Authors: bcoles and evilsocket Type: Auxiliary Pull request: #19510 contributed by bcoles Path: scanner/misc/cups_browsed_info_disclosure Description: Adds scanner module to retrieve CUPS version and kernel version information from cups-browsed services. Acronis Cyber Infrastructure default password remote code execution Authors: Acronis Internatio

5 min Attack Surface Security

The Main Components of an Attack Surface Management (ASM) Strategy

In part one of this blog series, we looked at some of the core challenges that are driving the demand for a new approach to Attack Surface Management. In this second blog I explore some of the key technology approaches to ASM and also some of the core asset types we need to understand.

7 min Labs

Ransomware Groups Demystified: CyberVolk Ransomware

As part of our ongoing efforts to monitor emerging cyber threats, we have analyzed the activities of CyberVolk, a politically motivated hacktivist group that transitioned into using ransomware and has been active since June 2024.

4 min Vulnerability Management

Modernizing Your VM Program with Rapid7 Exposure Command: A Path to Effective Continuous Threat Exposure Management

This is where continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) comes into play – an approach that shifts the focus from merely identifying vulnerabilities to understanding and mitigating exposures across the entire attack surface.

7 min Product Updates

What’s New in Rapid7 Products & Services: Q3 2024 in Review

This was one of the most exciting quarters at Rapid7 as we announced the next chapter in our mission to give customers command of their attack surface: the Rapid7 Command Platform, our unified threat exposure and detection and response platform.

3 min Attack Surface Security

Proactive Visibility Is Foundational to Strong Cybersecurity

Exposures are more than CVEs, so organizations need to move beyond the traditional thinking of vulnerability management to a holistic view.

3 min Metasploit

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 09/27/2024

Epic Release! This week's release includes 5 new modules, 6 enhancements, 4 fixes and 1 documentation update. Among the new additions, we have an account take over, SQL injection, RCE, and LPE! Thank you to all the contributors who made it possible! New Module Content (5) Cisco Smart Software Manager (SSM) On-Prem Account Takeover (CVE-2024-20419) Authors: Michael Heinzl and Mohammed Adel Type: Auxiliary Pull request: #19375 contribut

3 min Emergent Threat Response

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)

Multiple unpatched vulnerabilities were publicly disclosed in the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS), a popular IPP-based open-source printing system.

4 min InsightCloudSec

Proactively Securing Cloud Workloads in the CI/CD Pipeline with Rapid7 and Azure DevOps

We recognize this critical need and have added new integration for InsightCloudSec (ICS) and Exposure Command with Azure DevOps for Infrastructure as code (IaC) tooling, empowering organizations to quickly and effectively safeguard their attack surfaces.

4 min Forrester Wave

Rapid7 Recognized in Forrester’s 2024 Attack Surface Management (ASM) Wave Report

This week, Rapid7 was recognized as a Contender in Forrester’s 2024 Attack Surface Management (ASM) Wave report.

2 min Gartner

Three Recommendations for Creating a Risk-Based Detection and Response Program

In a report released earlier this summer, Gartner analysts offer three recommendations for fostering an environment of risk-based threat detection, investigation, and response that includes a deeper understanding of your organization’s risk profile by more than just the security team.