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Metasploit Hacking Tool To Get Services-Based Model

Posted by kdawson on from the at-your-services dept.

ancientribe writes "Metasploit hacking tool creator HD Moore told Dark Reading that the open-source hacking tool soon will come with back-end services-based features aimed at offloading resource-intensive penetration testing tasks. This is a departure for the software-oriented Metasploit, and Moore and company just may be on to something: it turns out commercial penetration testing tool vendors are looking at adding services-based versions of their software. Immunity Inc. will do so this year, and Core Security Technologies is considering doing so as well."

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  1. Ninnle Linux! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ninnle Linux ftw!

  2. Sweet! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now, who will be the first idiot to point it at a bank or government web site?

    Captcha: dumbness - too perfect to be a coincidence!

  3. You are kidding arent you ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?

    That sounds preposterous to me.

    If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.

    Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.

    Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.

    I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.

  4. Your goatse link is outdated. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Try this: http://goatse.fr/