The Velociraptor 2023 Annual Community Survey

By Dr. Mike Cohen & Carlos Canto Velociraptor is an open-source project led and shaped by the community. Over the years, Velociraptor has become a real force in the field of DFIR, making it an obvious choice for many operational situations. Rapid7 is committed to continue making Velociraptor the...

SSL vs. TLS: Which should you be using?

You may wonder if you should choose SSL or TLS to secure your network. Explore the differences between the two communications protocols, use cases where you should choose one or the other, and best practices for using SSL and TLS...

Grafana -- Critical vulnerability in golang

Grafana Labs reports: An issue in how go handles backticks with Javascript can lead to an injection of arbitrary code into go templates. While Grafana Labs software contains potentially vulnerable versions of go, we have not identified any exploitable use cases at this time. The CVSS score for th...

MSI Dump - A Tool That Analyzes Malicious MSI Installation Packages, Extracts Files, Streams, Binary Data And Incorporates YARA Scanner

MSI Dump - a tool that analyzes malicious MSI installation packages, extracts files, streams, binary data and incorporates YARA scanner. On Macro-enabled Office documents we can quickly use oletools mraptor to determine whether document is malicious. If we want to dissect it further, we could...

Imperva recognized as a Strong Performer in Forrester Wave: Data Security Platforms, Q1 2023

The Forrester Wave evaluated the largest end-to-end providers of data security capabilities across a wide range of functionality to enable controls to enforce data security policies for both structured and unstructured data. In this report, Forrester provides an assessment of the top vendors in t...

AWS Graviton Use Cases

Discover how AWS Graviton’s optimized processors help provide a superior price-performance ratio. Available for AWS-managed services, you’ll gain insight on strategies, use cases, and insight on how to get the most out of AWS Graviton...

When and How to Use AWS Graviton

Discover how AWS Graviton’s optimized processors help provide a superior price-performance ratio. Available for AWS-managed services, you’ll gain insight on strategies, use cases, and insight on how to get the most out of AWS Graviton...

Better Cloud Security Shouldn’t Require Bigger Budgets

Stretching what you’re given How can you do more when you’re constantly being given the same or less? When security budgets don’t match the pace of the cloud operations they’re tasked with securing, the only thing to do is become an expert in the stretch. It’s hard, and you might currently be und...

Improving Software Supply Chain Security

Explore use cases and mitigation strategies to improve software supply chain security and reduce cyber risk...

Azure vs. AWS Developer Tools

Both AWS and Azure developer tools provide key efficiencies in your DevOps environment, learn the comparison between tools, any overlap, and use cases for both...

CVE-2022-31022 Missing Role Based Access Control for the REST handlers in bleve/http package

Bleve is a text indexing library for go. Bleve includes HTTP utilities under bleve/http package, that are used by its sample application. These HTTP methods pave way for exploitation of a node’s filesystem where the bleve index resides, if the user has used bleve’s own HTTP bleve/http handlers fo...

CVE-2022-29622

An arbitrary file upload vulnerability in formidable v3.1.4 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted filename. NOTE: some third parties dispute this issue because the product has common use cases in which uploading arbitrary files is the desired behavior. Also, there are...

The Difference Between Virtual Machines and Containers

Discover the key differences, use cases, and benefits of virtual machines and containers...

How to use the Gartner® 2022 Strategic Roadmap for Data Security Platform Convergence

“It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin Evolution and innovation form the basis of most modern business mission statements. However, the same organizations pursuing growth and change often do not put...

Sharing the first SimuLand dataset to expedite research and learn about adversary tradecraft

Last month, we introduced the SimuLand project to help security researchers around the world deploy lab environments to reproduce well-known attack scenarios, actively test detections, and learn more about the underlying behavior and implementation of adversary techniques. Since the release of th...

Low: Red Hat Enhancement Advisory: ACS 3.62 enhancement update

Red Hat Advanced Cluster security releases a new Operator to simplify installation and accelerate security use cases. To accelerate implementation of security use cases the Red Hat Advanced Cluster security team has released a new Operator as the primary source of installation on OpenShift 4.6 an...

Anyone For a Smart Network Slice?

As with any standardization effort, development of 5G specifications accounted for numerous technology trends and new use cases...

SnitchDNS - Database Driven DNS Server With A Web UI

SnitchDNS is a database driven DNS Server with a Web UI, written in Python and Twisted, that makes DNS administration easier with all configuration changed applied instantly without restarting any system services. One of its main features is the logging of all DNS queries allowing the discovery o...

Can Edge Computing Exist Without the Edge? Part 2: Edge Computing

In part 1 of this series, I drew the architectural distinction between a centralized cloud platform and a distributed edge network. This is an important foundation upon which to explain the difference between cloud computing and edge computing. The two serve very different and complementary...

Rapid7 Announces Improvements to Goals and SLAs in InsightVM

We know that proving the efficacy of your vulnerability management program is no easy task. But with the Goals and SLAs feature in InsightVM, you can ensure you’re making and tracking progress toward your goals and service-level agreements SLAs at an appropriate place, as well as maintaining...