7Rapid Questions: Stephen Donnelly

At Rapid7, there's no shortage of passionate leaders looking to challenge convention and make an impact. Our "7Rapid Questions" series is a way to highlight some of the amazing work taking place behind the scenes, and the exciting growth opportunities available in our global offices. For this...

Location- and Device-agnostic Security for the Mobile Workforce

I've spent my entire career in technology and can still recall the time when a desktop PC was the only way to work. Truth be told, I'm also old enough to remember dumb terminals. I also remember my first company laptop -- a beast of a thing with a monochrome display so thick it came with an...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4751-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4751-1 advisory. It was discovered that the console keyboard driver in the Linux kernel contained a race condition. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive...

Failed to call RPC function: Error code: 0x80131500

Challenge Backup of Remote Desktop Server VMs with Application-Aware Processing may fail with an Unknown error, error code 0x80131500. You will see error messages similar to: "Failed to call RPC function 'Vss.GetSqlInfoForLastSnapshot2': Error code: 0x80131500. Failed to invoke func...

Threat Spotlight: MedusaLocker

By Edmund Brumaghin, with contributions from Amit Raut. Overview MedusaLocker is a ransomware family that has been observed being deployed since its discovery in 2019. Since its introduction to the threat landscape, there have been several variants observed. However, most of the functionality...

U.S. Finance Sector Hit with Targeted Backdoor Campaign

The financial services sector in the U.S. found itself under a barrage of cyberattacks last month, all bent on delivering a powerful backdoor called Minebridge. The attack chain employed a known method called “VBA Stomping” to avoid detection. According to researchers at FireEye, the campaigns,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: distcc-3.2rc1-22.fc28

distcc is a program to distribute compilation of C or C++ code across several machines on a network. distcc should always generate the same results as a local compile, is simple to install and use, and is often two or more times faster than a local compile...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: docker-1.13.1-65.git1185cfd.fc28

Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere. Docker containers can encapsulate any payload, and will run consistently on and between virtually any server. The same container...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: docker-1.13.1-65.git1185cfd.fc29

Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere. Docker containers can encapsulate any payload, and will run consistently on and between virtually any server. The same container...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: docker-latest-1.13.1-40.git1185cfd.fc29

Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere. Docker containers can encapsulate any payload, and will run consistently on and between virtually any server. The same container...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: docker-1.13.1-63.git1185cfd.fc28

Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere. Docker containers can encapsulate any payload, and will run consistently on and between virtually any server. The same container...

CISO series: Strengthen your organizational immune system with cybersecurity hygiene

One of the things I love about my job is the time I get to spend with security professionals, learning firsthand about the challenges of managing security strategy and implementation day to day. There are certain themes that come up over and over in these conversations. My colleague Ken Malcolmso...

Microsoft Office: Consistent Mime Handling

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: officeconsistentmimehandling.nasl 11843 2018-10-11 14:33:21Z emoss $ Check value for Consistent Mime Handling Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: docker-latest-1.13.1-37.git9cb56fd.fc27

Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere. Docker containers can encapsulate any payload, and will run consistently on and between virtually any server. The same container...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: docker-1.13.1-44.git584d391.fc26

Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere. Docker containers can encapsulate any payload, and will run consistently on and between virtually any server. The same container...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-696.16.1.OL6 - Update genkey bug 25599697 2.6.32-696.16.1 - net packet: fix tpreserve race in packetsetring Stefano Brivio 1481941 1481943 CVE-2017-1000111 - net packet: fix overflow in check for tpframenr Stefano Brivio 1481941 1481943 CVE-2017-1000111 - net packet: fix overflow in check...

iWant - CLI Based Decentralized Peer To Peer File Sharing

A commandline tool for searching and downloading files in LAN network, without any central server. Features Decentralized : There is no central server hosting files. Therefore, no central point of failure Easydiscovery of files: As easy as searching for something in Google. File download from...

Decentralized Peer to Peer File Sharing: iWant

A command-line tool for searching and downloading files in LAN network, without any central server. Features Decentralized : There is no central server hosting files. Therefore, no central point of failure Easy discovery of files : As easy as searching for something in Google. File download from...

Information Disclosure

nanoc is vulnerable to information disclosure. It does not check if the requested resources embedded within HTML documents are using a protocol that degrades the security of the original connection. If the browsers do not enforce consistent protocols, it is possible to leak private information...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: docker-1.10.3-15.gitf476348.fc24

Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere. Docker containers can encapsulate any payload, and will run consistently on and between virtually any server. The same container...