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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
Detection Reflection: Analyzing 9 Months of Rapid7 Penetration Testing Engagements
In this post, we’ll review results and trends from Under the Hoodie 2018 as they relate to incident detection, including where our red team found success.…
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.…
Password Tips from a Pen Tester: What is Your Company’s Default Password?
Welcome back to Password Tips From a Pen Tester. Last time, I exposed common password patterns we see when we perform penetration testing service engagements for our clients at Rapid7. This month, let’s dig into the amazingly weak default passwords that so many companies…
How to Build Your Own Caller ID Spoofer: Part 2
In 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…
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
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…
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…
