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 ...

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, the open-source platform for developing, testing, and using exploit code, got its official project site briefly hijacked on Monday by a well known member of the Chinese underground who ...

Two years after Rapid7 acquired the Metasploit Project, the company has rolled out a free and more user-friendly version of the open-source tool that is aimed at less technical users. The new ...

News of Rapid7’s Metasploit acquisition hit some in the information security community like a clap of thunder. The Metasploit Project has a deep, loyal user base, and it’s always unsettling to those ...

The Metasploit Project has found a way to go commercial without turning its design team into suits, as it was acquired by Rapid7. Details on the deal were not released, but Rapid7 did go through a $7 ...

Last week, I got on the phone with HD Moore to ask him how things have been going since he sold Metasploit to Rapid7, sending the open source security world into a frenzy some six months ago. Rapid7 ...

Announced yesterday, the Metasploit project is to be absorbed by security company Rapid7. A FAQ details some of the salient facts of the takeover, confirming that Metasploit will remain open source ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

The Metasploit Project today updated its signature open-source exploit framework to Version 3.1, adding a new graphical interface for Windows that will boost the number of researchers and hackers who ...

Core Security Technologies has created a fully supported technical integration between CORE IMPACT Pro and the Metasploit open-source exploit framework. Through the integration, testers will now be ...

METASPLOIT UNLEASHES VERSION 3.1 OF THE METASPLOIT FRAMEWORK New Version of Attack Framework Ready to Pwn Austin, Texas, January 28th, 2008 -- The Metasploit Project announced today the free, ...