Housemates. The new Red Team?

You have the VPN set up, you have 2FA, you have a good enforced password policy, firewalls are in place, you even managed to squeeze in some remote training to make employees more aware of potential phishing. You stop, breathe a sigh of relief, and then think… I've no idea who my employees live...

Old Tech Spills Digital Dirt on Past Owners

In a test of how well businesses wipe data on old devices, Rapid7 researcher Josh Frantz purchased 85 old gadgets from businesses. In total, he paid $600 for an aging collection of old computers, flash drives, phones and hard drives. What he discovered was that despite decades of the infosec...

PHPMiniAdmin Database Open Vulnerability

PHPMiniAdmin is a lightweight MySQL database management tool written in PHP. The tool supports common functions such as importing and exporting databases and executing SQL statements. An open database vulnerability exists in PHPMiniAdmin. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to leak data,...

Audit: NASA Fails To Properly Wipe Data From Discarded Drives

A recent internal audit at NASA, the U.S. space agency, found significant weakness in the way the agency disposes of IT equipment, including evidence that used hard drives containing sensitive NASA data may have been sold to the public on the secondhand market. The audit focused on the Johnson an...