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 ...

Metasploit 6.2.0 has been released with 138 new modules, 148 new improvements/features, and 156 bug fixes since version 6.1.0 was released in August 2021.

HD Moore, one of the developers of the Metasploit pen-testing (and hacking) tool, has posted exploits and detailed instructions on how to attack an iPhone. The information takes hackers — and ...

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.

HD Moore wants to simplify pen-testing and simulated hacking attacks against telephone systems.The Metasploit founder has released WarVOX as a free suite of tools to explore, classify and audit a ...

HD_Moore: Metasploit was started as a curses-based network game similar to “Overkill”; the idea was that the local network would be represented as a grid and live hosts would show up as points ...

There is now a working exploit for the MS12-020 RDP vulnerability in the Metasploit Framework, and researchers are working on a remote code execution exploit too.

Metasploit Pro 4 adds support for cloud-based deployments, being available as an Amazon AMI image for Amazon’s EC2 cloud service. Additionally, Metasploit pro is available as a VMware image for ...

The use of Metasploit instead of a custom malware strain isn't a new tactic. In the past few years, crooks have been slowly migrating from developing custom malware to using ready-made tools, such ...

The newest version of the Metasploit Framework, built to be friendlier to Microsoft Windows users, has been released to the public after a rewrite in the Ruby programming language. Metasploit 3.0 ...