Rapid7 Introduces Industry Cyber-Exposure Report: ASX 200
Today, Rapid7 released our second Industry Cyber-Exposure Report, examining the overall exposure of the ASX 200 family of companies.…
Cisco® RV110/RV130/RV215 Unauthenticated Configuration Export Vulnerability (CVE-2019-1663): What You Need to Know
This week, Cisco® released an advisory and patch for a remote code execution flaw in small-business routers used for wireless connectivity in small offices and home offices.…
Rapid7 Quarterly Threat Report: Q4 and 2018 Wrap-Up
In our 2018 Q4 Threat Report, we look at our custom Attacker Behavior Analytics rules, examine some new threats we’ve seen this year, and provide some steps to help you secure your organization.…
Drupal Core Remote Code Execution (CVE-2019-6340): What You Need to Know
On Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019, the Drupal Core team provided an early-warning update for the third Drupal Core Security Alert of 2019, which has been assigned CVE-2019-6340.…
[IoT Security] Introduction to Embedded Hardware Hacking
Many security professionals and researchers are intrigued by the idea of opening up and exploring embedded technologies but aren’t sure where to start.…
Level Up Your Internet Intelligence Using the Rapid7 Open Data API and R
Let's take a look at how you can use ropendata in R to search for available studies, download datasets, and explore the data.…
Secure That Query! Researching the Landscape of DNS over Transport Layer Security (TLS)
In this blog, we highlight research conducted about the landscape of DNS over Transport Layer Security (TLS).…
Understanding Ubiquiti Discovery Service Exposures
On Jan. 29, the Rapid7 Labs team was informed of a tweet by Jim Troutman indicating that Ubiquiti devices were being exploited and used to conduct denial-of-service attacks using a service on 10001/UDP.…
Cisco RV320/RV325 Router Unauthenticated Configuration Export Vulnerability (CVE-2019-1653): What You Need to Know
Last week, a critical configuration weakness in Cisco® routers was responsibly disclosed on the Full Disclosure mailing list. Here's what you need to know.…
Rapid7 Industry Cyber-Exposure Report Highlights the Need for Vulnerability Management
In our recently released Industry Cyber-Exposure Report: Fortune 500, we uncovered that companies across all industries in the U.S. Fortune 500 are showing signs of recurring compromise.…
Happy HaXmas! Year-End Internet Scanning Observations
As we wrap up 2018 and forge ahead into 2019, let's reflect on some of the key observations we made through our internet scanning with Project Sonar.…
The Ghost of Exploits Past: A Deep Dive into the Morris Worm
In this post, we will dive into the exploit development process for the three modules we created in honor of the 30th anniversary of the Morris worm.…
Once a Haxer, Always a Haxor
Like most hackers, I liked to take apart my holiday gifts as a kid. In this blog, I take apart Amazon's voice-controlled microwave oven to see how it works.…
Rsunk your Battleship: An Ocean of Data Exposed through Rsync
Rapid7 Labs recently decided to take a fresh look at rsync, this time focusing on exposure of rsync globally on the public internet.…
Charting the Forthcoming PHPocalypse in 2019
This experiment began when Josh Frantz remarked that he would be curious about the potential exposure from the just-reached EOL date for PHP Version 7.0 and the forthcoming EOL date for PHP 5.6.…
