From Triton to Stuxnet: Preparing for OT Incident Response

From an irked former contractor in Australia sabotaging a sewage plant in 2000, to the more high-level 2017 Triton malware attacks on Saudi Arabian petrochemical plants, operational technology OT for critical infrastructure has increasingly been a cybersecurity concern. But now, the COVID-19...

2021 Detection and Response Planning, Part 4: Planning for Success with a Cloud SIEM

This is the fourth and final installment of our series around 2021 security planning. Through this series, we talked to a previous CISO about how to tackle annual security planning, looked at driving more efficient threat detections, and also explored the benefits of greater SOC automation. In th...

The Evolution of the Qualys Cloud Platform

The global pandemic has upended everything, and in the cyber security world in particular it has highlighted the need for organizations to have a cloud-based security and compliance platform, Qualys President and Chief Product Officer Sumedh Thakar said during his keynote Monday at the virtual QS...

Building an Open Cloud Platform

Qualys Chairman and CEO Philippe Courtot kicked off QSC USA 2020, the company’s 20th annual user conference, with an assessment of current security challenges, and a clear call to action on how to successfully overcome them. “Today security is front and center, and as we move to the cloud, we mus...

How the Crypto Challenge as Action Helped a Major Airline Reduce False Positives While Protecting the Customer Experience

Challenges of Bot Detection: Keeping Defenses High Without Triggering False Positives Identifying bots is important and complicated work. Keeping up with ever-changing bot technologies and attack strategies requires deep knowledge and continuous threat research. The outbreak of the COVID-19...

The Impossible Dilemma of Twitter’s ‘Hacked Materials’ Rule

The company’s flip-flopping on the policy after banning a shady New York Post story highlights the challenges facing social media in 2020...

Announcing the Zero Trust Deployment Center

Organizations have been digitally transforming at warp speed in response to the way businesses operate and how people work. As a result, digital security teams have been under immense pressure to ensure their environments are resilient and secure. Many have turned to a Zero Trust security model t...

ctf

This repository contains a writeup for the CSAW CTF 2015. The writeup includes descriptions of various challenges, including web, exploit, crypto, reversing, and forensics challenges. The writeup is organized into sections, with each section describing a specific challenge. The challenges include...

ctf2

This repository is a writeup of the CSAW CTF 2015, a capture the flag CTF competition. The writeup is written in Polish, with an English version available for those who prefer it. The writeup covers various challenges from the competition, including web, exploit, crypto, reversing, and forensics...

How InsightVM Helps You Save Time and Prove Value

For many security teams, vulnerability risk management can feel like an endless climb. The truth is, no IT environment will ever be fully free of cyber-risk. That said, there are simple, attainable steps you can take right away to achieve an acceptable level of risk for your organization with the...

2021 Detection and Response Planning, Part 1: Rapid7’s Jeffrey Gardner Breaks Down How CISOs Should Approach Security Planning for the New Year

In this four-part series, we’ll explore key considerations and strategies for 2021 detection and response planning, and ways InsightIDR, Managed Detection and Response Services MDR, and InsightConnect can help drive increased efficiency and future-proof your SOC going into the new year. Despite a...

Ransomware And Zoom-Bombing: Cyberattacks Disrupt Back-to-School Plans

UPDATE A slew of ransomware attacks and other cyberthreats have plagued back-to-school plans — as if dealing with the pandemic weren’t stressful enough for administrators. Just this week, attacks in Hartford, Conn. and Clark County, Nev. forced public schools to postpone the first day of school, ...

pwntools

This repository is an offensive tool for CTF Capture The Flag pwn challenges. It is a framework for writing scripts to solve CTF pwn challenges. The primary CVE ID is not explicitly stated in the provided context, but the repository is likely used for exploiting vulnerabilities in various softwar...

XDR Defined

The EDR market is going through the biggest period of change and innovation now. Historically, endpoint detection and response EDR was created to provide borderline protection for a system. It provides coverage for endpoints in an attack, and the result is an endpoint security that covers many...

SecGen - Create Randomly Insecure VMs

SecGen creates vulnerable virtual machines, lab environments, and hacking challenges, so students can learn security penetration testing techniques. Boxes like Metasploitable2 are always the same, this project uses Vagrant, Puppet, and Ruby to create randomly vulnerable virtual machines that can ...

The Challenges and Opportunities of Working Remotely

Security has faced its own unique set of challenges during the shift to remote working. Ian Keller, CSO of SBV Services, recently sat down with Trend Micro and shared his thoughts on how his organization is coping with the current pandemic...

pwntools

This is an offensive tool for exploit development and CTF Capture The Flag framework. The tool is called pwntools and is used for exploit development and CTF challenges. It provides a set of tools and libraries for exploiting vulnerabilities and solving CTF challenges. The tool is written in Pyth...

CTF-challenges-by-me

This is an offensive tool for CTF challenges. It is a collection of exploits and challenges from various CTF events, including 0ctffinal-2017 and 0ctfquals-2018. The repository contains a variety of challenges, including web security, pwnable, and cryptography challenges. The challenges are...

Dockerfiles

This repository is a collection of Dockerfiles for CTF Capture The Flag challenges running on SniperOJ. The Dockerfiles are used to build a vulnerable environment for the challenges, which can be solved by participants. The repository contains various challenges, including web-based and pwn...

ctf-pwns

This repository contains a collection of CTF Capture The Flag challenges for training and education. The challenges are categorized into several folders, each containing a specific challenge. The challenges are designed to test various skills, including exploitation, reverse engineering, and...