Vulnerability management vendor Rapid7 has purchased the popular open-source Metasploit penetration testing tool project and named Metasploit founder HD Moore chief security officer of the company.

Metasploit, the open-source platform for developing, testing, and using exploit code, got its official project site briefly hijacked on Monday by a well known member of the Chinese underground who ...

Rapid7's acquisition of the Metasploit Project caused a lot of heads to turn. Concerns were raised about the project's future, specifically that of the Metasploit Framework. I held back from saying ...

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 ...

The Metasploit Project has found a way to go commercial without turning its design team into suits, as it was acquired by Rapid7. Details on the deal were not released, but Rapid7 did go through a $7 ...

Core Security Technologies has created a fully supported technical integration between CORE IMPACT Pro and the Metasploit open-source exploit framework. Through the integration, testers will now be ...

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 ...

HD Moore is the CSO at Rapid7 and Chief Architect of Metasploit, an open-source penetration testing platform. HD founded the Metasploit Project with the goal of becoming a public resource for exploit ...

Metasploit is a penetration testing framework that makes hacking simple. It’s an essential tool for many attackers and defenders. Point Metasploit at your target, pick an exploit, what payload to drop ...