Live Vulnerability Monitoring with Agents for Linux…and more

A few months ago, I shared news of the release of the macOS Insight Agent. Today, Im pleased to announce the availability of the the Linux Agent within Rapid7's vulnerability management solutions. The arrival of the Linux Agent completes the trilogy that Windows and macOS began in late 2016. For...

The Shadow Brokers Release Zero Day Exploit Tools

On Friday, a hacker group known as The Shadow Brokers publicly released a large number of functional exploit tools. Several of these tools make use of zero-day vulnerabilities, most of which are in Microsoft Windows. Exploiting these vulnerabilities in many cases leads to remote code execution an...

InsightVM: Analytics-driven Vulnerability Management, All The Way To The End(point)

In 2015 Rapid7 introduced the Insight platform, built to reduce the complexity inherent in security analytics. This reality was introduced first to our InsightIDR users, who now had the capabilities of a SIEM, powered by user behavior analytics UBA and endpoint detection. Soon we started to roll...

New Vulnerability Remediation Display in Nexpose Gets You to a Fix Faster

Background Information As part of the Nexpose 6.4.28 release on Wednesday, March 29th, we introduced a new way to view remediation solution data in both the Nexpose Console UI and the Top Remediations Report. Over the years, weve heard from our customers that the Top Remediations Report is one of...

Faraday v2.4 - Collaborative Penetration Test and Vulnerability Management Platform

Faraday is the Integrated Multiuser Risk Environment you were looking for! It maps and leverages all the knowledge you generate in real time, letting you track and understand your audits. Our dashboard for CISOs and managers uncovers the impact and risk being assessed by the audit in real-time...

MaxPatrol 8 installation process

Today I have a great opportunity to write about MaxPatrol 8. For me it is a very nostalgic experience. I worked for many year in Positive Technologies developing this product. And now I can write about it from the customer side. MaxPatrol is still not very well known outside Russia and CIS,...

CVE-2017-6482

CVE-2017-6482 is rejected/not used; reference CVE-2017-6394.

Faraday v2.2 - Collaborative Penetration Test and Vulnerability Management Platform

Faraday is the Integrated Multiuser Risk Environment you were looking for! It maps and leverages all the knowledge you generate in real time, letting you track and understand your audits. Our dashboard for CISOs and managers uncovers the impact and risk being assessed by the audit in real-time...

CVE-2016-6461

A vulnerability in the HTTP web-based management interface of the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance ASA could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to inject arbitrary XML commands on the affected system. More Information: CSCva38556. Known Affected Releases: 9.16.10. Known Fixed Releases:...

Acunetix v11 - Web Application Security Testing Tool

London, UK – November 2016 – Acunetix, the pioneer in automated web application security software, has announced the release of version 11. New integrated vulnerability management features extend the enterprise’s ability to comprehensively manage, prioritise and control vulnerability threats –...

SOL28056114 - Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2016-5829

Vulnerability Recommended Actions If you are running a version listed in the Versions known to be vulnerable column, you can eliminate this vulnerability by upgrading to a version listed in the Versions known to be not vulnerable column. If the table lists only an older version than what you are...

WSSAT - Web Service Security Assessment Tool

WSSAT is an open source web service security scanning tool which provides a dynamic environment to add, update or delete vulnerabilities by just editing its configuration files. This tool accepts WSDL address list as input file and for each service, it performs both static and dynamic tests again...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: openvas-manager-6.0.9-1.fc23

The OpenVAS Manager is the central service that consolidates plain vulnerab ility scanning into a full vulnerability management solution. The Manager control s the Scanner via OTP and itself offers the XML-based, stateless OpenVAS Manageme nt Protocol OMP. All intelligence is implemented in the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: openvas-manager-6.0.9-1.fc24

The OpenVAS Manager is the central service that consolidates plain vulnerab ility scanning into a full vulnerability management solution. The Manager control s the Scanner via OTP and itself offers the XML-based, stateless OpenVAS Manageme nt Protocol OMP. All intelligence is implemented in the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: openvas-manager-6.0.9-1.fc25

The OpenVAS Manager is the central service that consolidates plain vulnerab ility scanning into a full vulnerability management solution. The Manager control s the Scanner via OTP and itself offers the XML-based, stateless OpenVAS Manageme nt Protocol OMP. All intelligence is implemented in the...

Microsoft Office CVE-2016-3363 Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Office is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability because it fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker can leverage this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in user. Failed exploit attempts will likely result in deni...

Nexpose Now: Because Security Doesn't Wait

Attackers dont wait for your schedule, in fact, they try and take advantage of your windows of wait when youre biding your time waiting for a scan. Just think of your typical Patch Tuesday, when you walk in on Wednesday your vulnerability management solution has all the checks, but then you wait...

SOL23873366 - OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-2177

Vulnerability Recommended Actions If you are running a version listed in the Versions known to be vulnerable column, you can eliminate this vulnerability by upgrading to a version listed in the Versions known to be not vulnerable column. If the table lists only an older version than what you are...

Faraday v1.0.21 - Collaborative Penetration Test and Vulnerability Management Platform

Faraday is the Integrated Multiuser Risk Environment you were looking for! It maps and leverages all the knowledge you generate in real time, letting you track and understand your audits. Our dashboard for CISOs and managers uncovers the impact and risk being assessed by the audit in real-time...

Giving Red-Teamers the Blues

Pen-testing engagements are generally a breeze for most red-teamers; roadblocks are few, despite the ones in place being expensive and often paid for by very large companies. Chris Nickerson has been running such engagements for 15 years and he sees companies that throw more money and more server...