The importance of backing up

What does backing up something mean? Backing up is the act of making a copy or copies of a file. These files are stored somewhere other than where the originals are located. You may only need to back up a few files, or it might be a much bigger effort. Requirements may differ greatly depending on...

Build a Modern Ransomware Protection Strategy

With ransomware heavily targeting critical industries in 2021, find out how you can establish a strong cybersecurity defense strategy against this evolving, costly threat...

U.S. Federal Agencies Ordered to Patch Hundreds of Actively Exploited Flaws

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has published a catalog of vulnerabilities, including from Apple, Cisco, Microsoft, and Google, that have known exploits and are being actively exploited by malicious cyber actors, in addition to requiring federal agencies to prioriti...

[Security Nation] Pete Cooper and Irene Pontisso of the UK Cabinet Office on Their Cybersecurity Culture Competition

!\Security Nation\ Pete Cooper and Irene Pontisso of the UK Cabinet Office on Their Cybersecurity Culture Competitionhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/11/securitynationlogo--1-.jpg In this special bonus episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Pete Cooper and Irene Pontisso fro...

Building Threat-Informed Defenses: Rapid7 Experts Share Their Thoughts on MITRE ATT&CK

MITRE ATT&CK is considered by practitioners and the analyst community to be the most comprehensive framework of cybersecurity attacks and mitigation techniques available today. MITRE helps the security industry speak the same language and stick to a well-known, common framework. To get more detai...

GHSA-HGC3-HP6X-WPGX Antilles Dependency Confusion Vulnerability

Potential Impact: Remote code execution. Scope of Impact: Open-source project specific. Summary Description: A dependency confusion vulnerability was reported in the Antilles open-source software prior to version 1.0.1 that could allow for remote code execution during installation due to a packag...

Evolving Zero Trust—Lessons learned and emerging trends

Looking back at the last two years, to say that our security strategies have evolved would be an understatement. Organizations around the world made overnight transitions to remote work models in response to a global pandemic, forcing them to reassess attack surface areas as they underwent an...

Strategy for the Office Anywhere

Organizations must deploy a remote working strategy that suits the office anywhere model CIOs need to demonstrate leadership as we move out of lockdown into a new model of working in which the office is wherever the employee is. It’s time to build on this initial success and embed a remote workin...

2022 Planning: Straight Talk on Zero Trust

“Zero trust" is increasingly being heralded as the ultimate solution for organizational cyber safety and resilience — but what does it really mean, and how can you assess if it has a practical place in your organization's cybersecurity strategy for 2022? In this post, we'll answer those questions...

New insights on cybersecurity in the age of hybrid work

As we approach the last week of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, I think about what is top of mind for myself and my peers in security. The past year has continued the 2020s major shift in the way organizations operate. Recent data shows that 81 percent of enterprise organizations have begun the mo...

New insights on cybersecurity in the age of hybrid work

As we approach the last week of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, I think about what is top of mind for myself and my peers in security. The past year has continued the 2020s major shift in the way organizations operate. Recent data shows that 81 percent of enterprise organizations have begun the mo...

Defending Assets You Don’t Know About Against Cyberattacks

Back in the 90s, we all used to build massive firewalls around our systems and spent our day-to-day resources looking for holes to patch. In theory, an impenetrable wall around everything you own is a great idea, because it protects even the things you’ve forgotten about. However, if a wall is yo...

4 Simple Steps for an Effective Threat Intelligence Program

Threat intelligence is a critical part of an organization's cybersecurity strategy, but given how quickly the state of cybersecurity evolves, is the traditional model still relevant? Whether you're a cybersecurity expert or someone who's looking to build a threat intelligence program from the...

US Navy ship Facebook page hijacked to stream video games

The official Facebook page of the US Navy’s destroyer-class warship, USS Kidd, has been hijacked. According to Task & Purpose, who first reported on the incident, the account has done nothing but stream Age of Empires, an award-winning, history-based real-time strategy RTS video game wherein...

How to help your DevOps teams become integral to your cybersecurity strategy

What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? It’s a classic paradox, but anyone who has witnessed the relationship between SecOps and DevOps teams in any enterprise may have an inkling of how that might unfold. There is nothing new about the contentious relationship between...

[eBook] Your First 90 Days as CISO — 9 Steps to Success

Chief Information Security Officers CISOs are an essential pillar of an organization’s defense, and they must account for a lot. Especially for new CISOs, this can be a daunting task. The first 90 days for a new CISO are crucial in setting up their security team, so there is little time to waste,...

_harvest and _swap

Handle tensors Vulnerability details Impact The minimum amount out on the implemented harvest and swap methods means that attackers can manipulate the price with flashloans/frontrun before calling harvest to actually force the output to be small, pocketing the difference for themselves when they...

Controller.setCap sets wrong vault balance

Handle cmichel Vulnerability details The Controller.setCap function sets a cap for a strategy and withdraws any excess amounts diff. The vault balance is decreased by the entire strategy balance instead of by this diff: // @audit why not sub diff? vaultDetailsvault.balance =...

Incorrect access control on Harvester add/remove strategy functions

Handle 0xRajeev Vulnerability details Impact The documentation comments indicate that addStrategy and removeStrategy are gov/strategist only functions which is true for setHarvester and setSlippage but add/remove strategy have the incorrect onlyController modifier instead of onlyStrategist. Proof...

Vault may not have enough tokens for withdraw

Handle 0xRajeev Vulnerability details Impact There is an assumption in LegacyController.vault that the vault will have enough tokens0 to cover the balance difference. If not, the user may receive less than amount requested and balance funds get lost/locked unless the vault withdraws from the...