Hyundai Motor America patched its Blue Link mobile app after researchers found a cleartext encryption key that could be use to expose user and vehicle information.

A popular mobile application that provides financial market research material operates without a measure of encryption, putting user information, including credentials and strategic financial interests at risk. The Seeking Alpha mobile app for Android and iOS also leaks everything from HTTP cookies to stock positions the user may be interested in. The app is not...

An unexpected behavior in a relatively new and popular open source API framework called Swagger could lead to code execution, researchers at Rapid7 said. The company today disclosed some details on the vulnerability, and released a Metasploit exploit module and a proposed patch written by researcher Scott Davis who found the flaw. Details were privately...

A recent Internet scan threw a bucket of cold water on the notion that wonky, unsecured services have been significantly reduced from the Internet. “Today’s Internet in 2016 looks like the 1996 Internet, which is a little depressing,” said Rapid7 security research manager Tod Beardsley. Beardsley and colleagues Bob Rudis and Jon Hart today published...

ExaGrid has removed a private SSH key and weak, hardcoded credentials shipping with all of its disk-based storage appliances. Updated firmware has been available since March 24 and storage and security managers are urged to update devices to version 4.8 P26. Researcher James Lee of Rapid7 privately disclosed the issue to the storage vendor on...

As more devices are connected to the Internet, not only are vulnerabilities introduced into those networked things, but also some glaring holes are exposed in organizations’ ability to receive and triage bug reports. Researchers at Rapid7 today disclosed details on a pair of vulnerabilities in toys and interactive platforms aimed at children. The two vulnerabilities...

Comcast’s Xfinity Home Security System is vulnerable to attacks that interfere with its ability to detect and alert to home intrusions. Researchers at Rapid7 today disclosed the issue after fruitless attempts to contact and report the problem to Comcast dating back to Nov. 2; Rapid7 did disclose the vulnerability to CERT, which is expected to...