Metasploit's self-proclaimed quest is to help IT pros verify the security of the software they buy or write. "Without exploit code, penetration testers can't do their jobs, [intrusion ...

So Metasploit will only inspire loyalty if exploits continue to be added quickly. Do you expect the commitment to the FOSS project to continue now that Express has entered the market?

Frequent Metasploit contributor Eric Romang stumbled upon the IE exploit when he probed one of the servers he claimed was operated by the “Nitro” hacker gang, which used a zero-day in Oracle ...

To improve the exploit, the Metasploit team used a technique borrowed from two well-known security researchers, Greenbaum said. “The initial exploit used heap-spraying technology,” he said.

A series of cyber-attacks against government organizations in Central Asia and Asia- Pacific has been linked to the ...

Metasploit, an exploit testing framework created by noted security researcher and hacker HD Moore, has been dubbed a tripwire of sorts by Symantec in the past.

Hackers make the Metasploit exploit more effective, and thus more appealing to cybercriminals Hackers working on the open-source Metasploit project have spiffed up a zero-day attack on Microsoft ...

Adobe doesn't plan to patch the newest critical vulnerability in its PDF viewing and editing software for another four weeks, even though attack code has been publicly released.

Hackers working on the open-source Metasploit project have spiffed up a zero-day attack on Microsoft's Internet Explorer, making it more reliable -- and more likely to be used by criminals.