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.

The penetration testing world saw a couple of exciting announcements yesterday. The first one I want to mention because it's one of my favorite tools -- Burp Suite Professional. It's a great tool for ...

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 ...

Document shows you how to use Metasploit Framework. An upcoming column (4/21/06) will discuss using Metasploit (www.metasploit.org) Framework to test vulnerabilities. This accompanying blog entry has ...

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 if ...

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 ...

When Rapid7 bought the Metasploit Project exactly one year ago this week, there were rumblings of concern that the open-source penetration testing tool would lose its identity and go all commercial.

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 ...