Rapid7 urges NIST and NTIA to promote coordinated disclosure processes

Rapid7 has long been a champion of coordinated vulnerability disclosure and handling processes as they play a critical role in both strengthening risk management practices and protecting security researchers. We not only use coordinated disclosure processes in our own vulnerability disclosure and...

U.S. Trade Group Hacked by Chinese Hackers ahead of Trump-Xi Trade Summit

Researchers have uncovered a Chinese cyber-espionage against the United States ahead of the trade summit on Thursday between US President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping. According to a new report published today by Fidelis Cybersecurity firm, the Chinese APT10 hacking group implant...

Rapid7: Supporting the Community at BSides Boston

One of the things I love about working at Rapid7 is how deeply this company embodies the concept of giving back to the Security Community. Whether it be discussing research on adversary analytics, attack methods for breaking out of sandboxes, or simply breaking into the industry - Rapid7 encourag...

Trump Signs Repeal of ISP Privacy Rules

President Trump signed congressional legislation late Monday that repeals the Federal Communications Commission’s rules that would have prevented broadband ISPs from tracking and selling its customers’ online information. Despite opposition from civil liberties groups, democrats who voted against...

Aviation-Related Phishing Campaigns Seeking Credentials

A wave of email-based phishing campaigns is targeting airline consumers with messages that contain malware that infects systems or links to spoofed airline websites that are personalized to trick victims into handing over personal or business credentials. “Over the past several weeks, we have see...

Denial of Service Vulnerabilities in NVidia® Drivers that affect Quadro, NVS and GeForce Windows-based Systems - Lenovo Support US

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Local Privilege Escalation or Denial of Service via the Intel® Graphics Driver

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-7484 Potential Impact: Local privilege escalation or denial of service Severity: High Scope of Impact: Industry-Wide CVE Identifier: CVE-2016-5647 Summary Description: Multiple potential vulnerabilities exist in the Intel® Graphics Driver for Microsoft Windows. These...

Under the Hoodie: Actionable Research from Penetration Testing Engagements

Today, we're excited to release Rapid7's latest research paper, Under the Hoodie: Actionable Research from Penetration Testing Engagements, by Bob Rudis, Andrew Whitaker, Tod Beardsley, with loads of input and help from the entire Rapid7 pentesting team. This paper covers the often occult art of...

Consortium Publishes Manifesto on Autonomous Vehicle Security

Intel, Uber and IoT company Aeris have joined forces in an effort aimed at fostering industry cooperation when it comes to building safety features into autonomous vehicles and the systems that support them. Today the group, which goes by the name Future of Automotive Security Technology Research...

Bill Calls for Study of Cybersecurity Standards for Cars

A House bill was introduced Tuesday that could accelerate the federal government’s involvement in regulating automobile cybersecurity. The Security and Privacy in Your Car Study Act of 2017, authored by Reps. Ted Lieu D-Calif. and Joe Wilson R-SC, calls on the National Highway Traffic Safety...

Intel® Ethernet Controller X710/XL710 NVM Denial of Service Vulnerability - Lenovo Support US

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Inherent Risks of Using the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) on the Lenovo System x Integrated Management Module (IMM), Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) and ThinkServer TSM - us

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-10617 Potential Impact: Access to systems through IPMI if default settings are not changed Severity: High Scope of Impact: Industry-Wide CVE Identifiers: CVE-2013-4037, CVE-2013-4031 Summary Description: Various risks with the industry-standard Intelligent Platform...

AMI BIOS SMM Code Execution Vulnerability

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-4710 Potential Impact: Execution of code in SMM by an attacker with administrative access Severity: Medium Scope of impact: Industry-wide Summary Description: System Management Mode SMM is the most privileged execution mode of the x86 processor. Software System...

Windows 8 Application Launcher node on ELM tool cannot start on the Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry device

Windows 8 Application Launcher node on ELM tool cannot start on the Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry device This issue occurs because Windows 8 Application Launcher node has to retrieve Application names from the Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry device. This hotfix installs an extension to the Windows ...

Update enables downgrade rights between Windows 10 IoT and Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry

Update enables downgrade rights between Windows 10 IoT and Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry This article describes an update that enables downgrade rights between Windows 10 Internet of Things IoT and Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry. Before you install this update, see the Prerequisites section. About...

Microsoft Windows 10 Virtualization-Based Security Bypass - Lenovo Support US

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Mirai Giving DDoS-as-a-Service Industry a Boost

The availability of the Mirai malware source code online isn’t a guarantee that just anyone can quickly convert it into a money-making IoT-based DDoS botnet. Researchers at Digital Shadows have been combing dark web sites such as the Hackforums where black hat Anna-Senpai dropped the Mirai code i...

System Management Mode (SMM) BIOS Vulnerability - Lenovo Support US

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Intentionally Vulnerable Machine for Exploit Testing: Metasploitable3

Intentionally Vulnerable Machine for Exploit Testing Metasploitable3 is a free virtual machine that allows you to simulate attacks largely using Metasploit. It has been used by people in the security industry for a variety of reasons: such as training for network exploitation, exploit development...

HDF5 Group libhdf5 H5Z_NBIT Code Execution Vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2016-0177 HDF5 Group libhdf5 H5ZNBIT Code Execution Vulnerability November 17, 2016 CVE Number CVE-2016-4331 Description HDF5 is a file format that is maintained by a non-profit organization, The HDF Group. HDF5 is designed to be used for storage and organization ...