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

HD Moore, the Metasploit Project founder and internationally recognized security expert, joins Rapid7’s executive team as chief security officer and will remain Metasploit’s chief architect.

An update to the Metasploit Project's signature open-source exploit framework includes a new graphical interface for Windows that's expected to boost the number of researchers and hackers who are ...

The first major milestone update to the open-source Metasploit Framework since 2011 is now available, making it easier for security researchers to test cyber-security defenses against exploits.

The Metasploit Project is launching a reward program for working exploits for high-priority vulnerabilities.

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 ...

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.

Rapid7, the vulnerability management security specialist, has acquired Metasploit, the ongoing open source security project that developed the Metasploit Framework. The move is billed as allowing ...

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 ...

We conducted our third live chat this week, this one with HD Moore, the founder of the Metasploit Project and the CSO of Rapid7. Moore got a lot of great questions on a wide variety of topics, so ...

Announced yesterday, the Metasploit project is to be absorbed by security company Rapid7. HD Moore, creator of the Metasploit project announced the acquisition in his blog yesterday. In the ...