Overview:Ethical hackers follow the seven-phase Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES), moving from intelligence ...

A University of Virginia researcher has a new book out — and the title will be instantly recognizable in the cybersecurity field. Daniel G. Graham, assistant professor of computer science in the ...

Metasploit was originally developed by H.D. Moore in 2003 and became an open-source framework in 2004. It was later acquired by Rapid7 in 2009, integrating seamlessly into their suite of products, ...

The Metasploit Project is a computer security project that provides data about security vulnerabilities and assists penetration testing. It is owned by Rapid7, a US-based cybersecurity firm. A notable ...

An increasing number of threat actors have started relying on the command-and-control (C2) framework Sliver as an open-source alternative to tools such as Metasploit and Cobalt Strike. Security ...

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. Metasploit is a penetration testing framework ...

Cobalt Strike and Metasploit were the offensive security tools most commonly used to host malware command-and-control (C2) servers in 2020, researchers report. Researchers with Recorded Future's ...

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 ...

The developers of the Metasploit penetration testing framework have released today a weaponized exploit for the BlueKeep Windows vulnerability. While other security researchers have released defanged ...

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 ...