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 ...

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.

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

Terminology The following terminology is not only used within the Metasploit Framework, but throughout the professional hacking and penetration testing communities.

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 ...

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 ...

Ryan Naraine reports that Metasploit 3.0 has been released with a bunch of preloaded exploits and other payloads.

Feel free to comment. in the meantime, it looks like Metasploit has successfully navigated the move from pure open source project, to commercially supported product using an open core business model.