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 ...

Last week, I got on the phone with HD Moore to ask him how things have been going since he sold Metasploit to Rapid7, sending the open source security world into a frenzy some six months ago. Rapid7 ...

The wildly popular Metasploit hacking tool for the first time is now officially open source, open-license technology that can be incorporated into commercial tools. The free research and penetration ...

Announced yesterday, the Metasploit project is to be absorbed by security company Rapid7. A FAQ details some of the salient facts of the takeover, confirming that Metasploit will remain open source ...

Has H.D. Moore gone too far? Moore's like many security researchers who gin up publicity for the software flaws they find, as he did with his bug-a-day stunt highlighting browser weaknesses in July.

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

The Metasploit Project takes penetration testing to a whole new level, not only finding vulnerabilities in applications, but also providing exploit code that so-called white hat and black hat hackers ...

The information security community stands to benefit from Rapid7's acquisition of Metasploit, IT security experts say. But much depends on how Rapid7 handles its new property. News of Rapid7’s ...

The Metasploit Project and its founder, HD Moore, hope to change that perception. On Wednesday, the project released an updated design framework to the Metasploit tool, which allows security experts ...

The Metasploit Project today updated its signature open-source exploit framework to Version 3.1, adding a new graphical interface for Windows that will boost the number of researchers and hackers who ...