We conducted our third live chat this week, this one with HD Moore, the founder of the Metasploit Project and the CSO of Rapid7. Moore got a lot of great questions on a wide variety of topics, so ...

Along with news of new nasty virii comes word that Metasploit, an open source tool for creating exploits and testing them against your system (to make sure that it is secure) has been released ...

Metasploit, he explains, is really a way of helping the good guys protect the net from malicious attack. "We're not in the business of arming bad guys," he says.

The developers of the Metasploit penetration testing framework have released today a weaponized exploit for the BlueKeep Windows vulnerability. While other security researchers have released ...

Metasploit also has modules to run a dictionary-based password-guessing attack against most services. Search for _login in the module browser to find these modules. To attack SSH, highlight several ...

The Metasploit Web site serves as a mental gymnasium for security pros--and cons, since it makes no effort to discern one from the other--looking for ways to break into IT systems. The latest ...

New features in Metasploit 6.2.0 Last week, Rapid7 released Metasploit 6.2.0, which includes hundreds of bug fixes and improvements. However, six new features are highlighted that enhance existing ...

A fresh look at the penetration testing tool Metasploit reveals the 15-year old hacking tool still has some tricks up its sleeves even against modern defenses.

The Metasploit Framework itself will continue to be free and open source. The launch of Metasploit Community coincides with the second anniversary of Rapid7’s acquisition of the Metasploit project.

Metasploit Pro Console – Only available in Metasploit Pro, this console is for penetration testers who have become highly accustomed to the easy-to-use command-line interface of the Metasploit ...