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Metasploit To Get More Powerful Web Attack Features

A popular open-source Web application attack and audit framework is now under the umbrella of Rapid7, the vulnerability management company that purchased the Metasploit Project last year. The w3af ...
Computerworld

Metasploit attack app gets update

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 ...
Computerworld

Metasploit releases IE attack, but it’s unreliable

Developers of the open-source Metasploit penetration testing toolkit have released code that can compromise Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, but the software is not as reliable as first thought.
Threat Post

Researcher Will Demo Crippling Siemens Attack Using Metasploit

For years, there’s been an argument that the sophistication of industrial control systems is enough to keep script kiddies – or low-skilled hackers – away. Well, so much for that. For years, there’s ...
Dark Reading

Metasploit Gets Covert Forensics And PXE Boot Attack Capabilities

Black Hat USA and DefCon bring a wealth of knowledge, new tools, and updates to old favorites. One thing that is often disappointing is that tools are released and nothing ever happens to further ...
ZDNet

MetaSploit launches version 3.1, improves Windows GUI, supports iPhone

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. Metasploit, the brainchild of ...
Ars Technica

E-Z-2-Use attack code exploits critical bug in majority of Android phones

Recently-released attack code exploiting a critical Android vulnerability gives attackers a point-and-click interface for hacking a majority of smartphones and tablets that run the Google operating ...
Threat Post

Project Basecamp Adds Stuxnet-type Attack Module to Metasploit

UPDATE: Project Basecamp, a volunteer effort to expose security holes in industrial control system software, unveiled new modules on Thursday to exploit holes in common programmable logic controllers ...
PC World

Pressure on Microsoft, as Windows Attack Now Public

Hackers have publicly released new attack code that exploits a critical bug in the Windows operating system, putting pressure on Microsoft to fix the flaw before it leads to a worm outbreak. The ...
CSOonline

Windows Attack Puts Pressure on Microsoft

Hackers have publicly released new attack code that exploits a critical bug in the Windows operating system, putting pressure on Microsoft to fix the flaw before it leads to a worm outbreak. Hackers ...
Network World

Pressure on Microsoft, as Windows attack now public

Hackers have publicly released new attack code that exploits a critical bug in the Windows operating system, putting pressure on Microsoft to fix the flaw before it leads to a worm outbreak. The ...