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, or are simply interested in the basics, this blog…
Password Tips From a Pen Tester: Common Patterns Exposed
Welcome back to Password Tips From a Pen Tester. Last time, I talked about what you can expect to learn from these posts and I also explained the three most common passwords that we see on penetration tests. This month, let’s take a look…
How to Build Your Own Caller ID Spoofer: Part 1
My Introduction to Asterisk Early in my penetration testing career, I was tasked with performing a wardialing modem hacking gig—the client wanted to test their telephone network for modem-related weaknesses. This was a challenge because not only did I not know anything about modem…
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…
Attacker Behavior Analytics: How InsightIDR Detects Unknown Threats
InsightIDR customers now have an ever-evolving library of attacker behavior detections automatically matched against their data. Read on to learn how Rapid7 SOC and threat intel teams investigate a constant rumbling of attacker behavior and transform it into actionable threat intelligence.…
Hohoho-wned: First Steps Toward a Pen Test Oriented Rootkit
Year after year it seems that Santa is intent on sending me coal, but little does he know that this year I already have access to one of his Linux machines and I'm going to make sure that I at least deserve to get my…
Metasploit MinRID Option
We’ve added a new option to the smb_lookupsid Metasploit module. 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…
Keeping it simple at UNITED
The following post is a guest blog by Bo Weaver, Senior Penetration Tester at CompliancePoint. If you're attending UNITED, you can catch Bo's talk at 11:45 AM on Thursday, September 14 in the Phish, Pwn, and Pivot track. Hi! I’m Bo. I’ll…
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…
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…
Combining Responder and PsExec for Internal Penetration Tests
By Emilie St-Pierre, TJ Byrom, and Eric Sun Ask any pen tester what their top five penetration testing tools are for internal engagements, and you will likely get a reply containing nmap, Metasploit, CrackMapExec, SMBRelay and Responder. An essential tool for any whitehat, Responder is…
Preparing for GDPR Compliance: 10 Actionable Recommendations
GDPR is coming….. If your organisation does business with Europe, or more specifically does anything with the Personal Data of EU Citizens who aren't dead (i.e. Natural Persons), then, just like us, you're going to be in the process of living the dream…
Under the Hoodie: Actionable Research from Penetration Testing Engagements
Today, we're excited to release Rapid7's latest research paper, Under the Hoodie: Actionable Research from Penetration Testing Engagements, by Bob Rudis, Andrew Whitaker, Tod Beardsley, with loads of input and help from the entire Rapid7 pentesting team.This paper covers the often occult art of…
Metasploitable3 Capture the Flag Competition
UPDATE: Leaderboard can be found on this new post! Plus, some notes that may be helpful. Exciting news! Rapid7 is hosting a month-long, world-wide capture the flag(s) competition! Rapid7 recently released Metasploitable3, the latest version of our attackable, vulnerable environment designed to help security…
Deception Technology: Can It Detect Intruders Earlier in their Attack Chain?
Every infosec conference is chatting about the Attack Chain, a visual mapping of the steps an intruder must take to breach a network. If you can detect traces of an attack earlier, you not only have more time to respond, but can stop the unauthorized…
