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 ...

Vulnerability management vendor Rapid7 has purchased the popular open-source Metasploit penetration testing tool project and named Metasploit founder HD Moore chief security officer of the company.

Metasploit can be found in every pen tester's tool kit. Ditto for most hackers. That means many are now thinking through how a new version of Metasploit – the first major release since 2011 – is going ...

For more than a decade, a powerful app called Metasploit has been the most important tool in the hacking world: An open-source Swiss Army knife of hacks that puts the latest exploits in the hands of ...

So what’s new in version 3.5? First, Metasploit now has 613 exploit modules and 306 auxiliary modules to choose from. That is up from 551 exploits and 261 aux mods available in 3.4. The new exploits ...

Cobalt Strike and Metasploit, two penetration testing toolkits usually employed by security researchers, have been used to host more than a quarter of all the malware command and control (C&C) servers ...