Metasploit is a widely used penetration testing tool that makes hacking way easier than it used to be. It has become an indispensable tool for both red team and blue team.

A fresh look at the penetration testing tool Metasploit reveals the 15-year old hacking tool still has some tricks up its sleeves even against modern defenses.

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

Using a pair of zero day vulnerabilities, a team of security researchers from U.K.-based MWR Labs hacked into a Samsung Galaxy S3 phone running Android 4.0.4 by beaming an exploit via NFC.

We have apps like Nmap, Aircrack, Kismet and Ettercap for scanning a network and sniffing packets and exploit tools like Metasploit, SET, Hydra and JTR - plus a lot more.

The new version of HD Moore’s point-and-click Metasploit Framework that was rewritten from scratch in the Ruby scripting language is ready to penetrate, pick at patches, regress test and ...