A website that lists every known security hole in every piece of popular software on earth and serves up software that lets anyone exploit all those holes? It sounds like a terrible idea, a way of ...

Automated security tools have been one of the most significant advancements in information security. Automation has become a necessity given the increasing complexity of networks and software -- and ...

Has H.D. Moore gone too far? Moore's like many security researchers who gin up publicity for the software flaws they find, as he did with his bug-a-day stunt highlighting browser weaknesses in July.

Is there such a thing as a security tool that’s too effective? Sounds silly. You’d probably never hear of a firewall being called too effective or an encryption algorithm as being too un-crackable.

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rapid7, the leading provider of security risk intelligence solutions, today announced the launch of Metasploit® Community Edition: a new free addition to the Metasploit family ...

The Metasploit Project takes penetration testing to a whole new level, not only finding vulnerabilities in applications, but also providing exploit code that so-called white hat and black hat hackers ...

The iPhone is now officially fresh meat: Metasploit creator HD Moore has added iPhone-hacking features to the wildly popular freebie penetration testing tool. (See Now Playing: Metasploit 3.0.) ...

Developers have released a major update to the Metasploit security testing tool designed to run more smoothly on the Windows operating system. Metasploit 3.0, released early Tuesday morning, has been ...

Developers have released a major update to the Metasploit security testing tool designed to run more smoothly on the Windows operating system. Metasploit 3.0, released early Tuesday morning, has been ...

Security product provider Rapid7 has updated its widely used open-source Metasploit exploitation framework, expanding the software so it supports enterprise IT security staff as well as its core ...