This project serves as a hands-on guided experience for performing penetration testing using the Metasploit Framework, a powerful and widely-used tool for ethical hacking and cybersecurity assessments ...

The team behind the Metasploit Project is launching its own version of a bug bounty program: cash payouts for working exploits. The group is hoping to get explit code for as many of its top 30 ...

Rapid7's acquisition of the Metasploit Project caused a lot of heads to turn. Concerns were raised about the project's future, specifically that of the Metasploit Framework. I held back from saying ...

This project was conducted strictly for educational purposes in a controlled virtual lab environment. The target machine (Windows XP) was intentionally configured with known vulnerabilities, and no ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rapid7, the leading provider of unified vulnerability management, compliance and penetration testing solutions, today announced the acquisition of Metasploit, the principal ...

Announced yesterday, the Metasploit project is to be absorbed by security company Rapid7. HD Moore, creator of the Metasploit project announced the acquisition in his blog yesterday. In the posting, ...