The Metasploit Project has found a way to go commercial without turning its design team into suits, as it was acquired by Rapid7.

A new version of Metasploit is out just weeks after the testing framework was acquired by Rapid7.

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 ...

The open source project already offers penetration testing tools and exploit code. Now it's going further, offering eVade-o-Matic, a tool to make it harder to detect exploit code aimed at Web ...

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 ...

Dennis Fisher talks with HD Moore, the founder of the Metasploit Project and the chief security officer at Rapid7, about the evolution of Metasploit, the difficulty of client-side exploitation in ...

Metasploit has benefited, Moore says, because it is now the focus of six full-time, paid employees. Rapid7 tried to hire two of the project’s main developers, but only scored one.

Boston-based Rapid7 said the acquisition of Metasploit and its database of public, tested IT exploits, the Metasploit Project, will boost the capabilities of Rapid7’s network vulnerability ...

The Metasploit Project plans to add, sometime during the week of Oct. 30, 802.11 (Wi-Fi) exploits to a new version of its point-and-click attack tool, a move that simplifies the way wireless ...

Project Basecamp, a volunteer effort to expose security holes in industrial control system software, announced that it had developed new modules to exploit holes in common programmable logic ...

The Metasploit Project released version 3.1 of its exploit development and attack framework. Key additions include a better Windows interface and support for the iPhone.