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The open-source Metasploit Framework 5.0 has long been used by hackers and security professionals alike to break into systems. Now, this popular system penetration testing platform, which enables you ...

The new version of HD Moore’s point-and-click Metasploit Framework that was rewritten from scratch in the Ruby scripting language is ready to penetrate, pick at patches, regress test and otherwise ...

Rapid7 the company who brings us the Metasploit penetration testing program is celebrating the 2 year anniversary of their acquisition of Metasploit with the release of a new free Community edition.

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 popular penetration testing and ...

The open-source penetration testing tool Metasploit will soon have a commercial version, Metasploit Express, built on the popular Metasploit Framework. The commercial version has been the source of ...

A public exploit module for the BlueKeep Windows vulnerability has been added today to the open-source Metasploit penetration testing framework, developed by Rapid7 in collaboration with the ...

In my first installment in this series on professional hacking tools, we downloaded and installed Metasploit, the exploitation framework. Now, we will begin to explore the Metasploit Framework and ...

Metasploit Framework creator H.D. Moore announced Tuesday that version 3.0 of his popular penetration testing tool is now available. Metasploit Framework version 3.0 contains 177 exploits, 104 ...

Security product provider Rapid7 has updated its widely used open-source Metasploit exploitation framework, expanding the software so it supports enterprise IT security staff as well as its core ...