4 min
Research
Analyzing the Attack Landscape: Rapid7’s 2021 Vulnerability Intelligence Report
Rapid7’s 2021 Vulnerability Intelligence Report provides a landscape view and expert analysis of critical vulnerabilities and threats.
5 min
Ransomware
4 Fallacies That Keep SMBs Vulnerable to Ransomware, Pt. 1
In this two-part blog series, we will present four common mistakes SMBs make when thinking about ransomware risk.
4 min
Vulnerability Management
The VM Lifecycle: How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
In this post, we explore the concept of a vulnerability management lifecycle, providing practical guidance and definitions.
6 min
Vulnerability Management
InsightVM Scanning: Demystifying SSH Credential Elevation
In this post, we look at the different ways SSH credentials can be elevated for scanning in InsightVM.
8 min
Vulnerability Management
Patch Tuesday - March 2022
March 2022's Patch Tuesday sees Microsoft addressing 71 CVEs (excluding Chromium/Edge), 3 of which are considered Critical.
3 min
Vulnerability Management
InsightVM Scan Engine: Understanding MAC Address Discovery
When scanning an asset, one key piece of data that the InsightVM Scan Engine collects is the MAC address of the network interface used during the connection.
5 min
Vulnerability Management
What's New in InsightVM and Nexpose: Q4 2021 in Review
As we enter into the new year, we wanted to provide a recap of product releases and features in InsightVM and Nexpose for Q4 2021.
6 min
Log4Shell
Log4Shell 2 Months Later: Security Strategies for the Internet's New Normal
On Wednesday, February 16, Rapid7 experts Bob Rudis, Devin Krugly, and Glenn Thorpe sat down for a webinar on the current state of the Log4j vulnerability.
14 min
Research
Dropping Files on a Domain Controller Using CVE-2021-43893
On December 14, 2021, during the Log4Shell chaos, Microsoft published CVE-2021-43893, a remote privelege escalation vulnerability affecting Windows EFS.
6 min
Vulnerability Management
Patch Tuesday - February 2022
February 2022's fixes from Microsoft are relatively light as far as Patch Tuesdays go.
10 min
Patch Tuesday
Patch Tuesday - January 2022
The first Patch Tuesday of 2022 sees Microsoft publishing fixes for over 120
CVEs across the bulk of their product line, including 29 previously patched CVEs
affecting their Edge browser via Chromium. None of these have yet been seen
exploited in the wild, though six were publicly disclosed prior to today. This
includes two Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in open source
libraries that are bundled with more recent versions of Windows: CVE-2021-22947
[https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-
6 min
Log4Shell
Log4Shell Strategic Response: 5 Practices for Vulnerability Management at Scale
Where do you begin to respond to a critical vulnerability like the one in Apache’s Log4j Java library (a.k.a. Log4Shell)? Start with these 5 concepts.
7 min
Vulnerability Management
Patch Tuesday - December 2021
This month’s Patch Tuesday comes in the middle of a global effort to mitigate Apache Log4j CVE-2021-44228.
8 min
InsightVM
Using InsightVM to Find Apache Log4j CVE-2021-44228
How to use InsightVM or Nexpose to detect exposure to Log4Shell CVE-2021-44228 in your environment, plus additional detail about how our various vulnerability checks work under the hood.
3 min
Vulnerability Management
Deepfakes: A Nascent Cybersecurity Threat
There's one cybersecurity threat trend in particular we think is worth watching out for: deepfakes.