Metasploit: A hacking productivity suite Ryan Naraine reports that Metasploit 3.0 has been released with a bunch of preloaded exploits and other payloads.

What Is Metasploit? Metasploit is among the most widely used exploitation tools in the hacking/security field. It's used by both novices and advanced professionals.

Before we start hacking, let's familiarize ourselves with Metasploit so that when I use certain terms, we all understand them to mean the same thing.

The Metasploit hacking tool soon will come with services-based features aimed at offloading resource-intensive penetration testing tasks, as well as augmenting the popular open-source software.

A group of hackers called Kdms Team was able to hijack a computer security website simply by sending a fax.

Rapid7’s Metasploit is the latest high profile website to fall foul of a pro-Palestinian group of hackers, who hijacked its DNS records. And it seems the hackers used an old-fashioned fax message to ...

After seven years, Metasploit Framework, the popular open-source hacking and security tool, has been given a major update.

The new version of the hacking tool includes a jazzed-up Web interface and much more modest resource requirements on Windows PCs. Metasploit 2.7, which was written in the Perl language, uses ...