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Metasploit Project Sold To Rapid7

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

ancientribe writes "The wildly popular, open-source Metasploit penetration testing tool project has been sold to Rapid7, a vulnerability management vendor, paving the way for a commercial version of Metasploit to eventually hit the market. HD Moore, creator of Metasploit, was hired by Rapid7 and will continue heading up the project. This is big news for the indie Metasploit Project, which now gets full-time resources. Moore says this will translate into faster turnaround for new features. Just what a commercial Metasploit product will look like is still in the works, but Rapid7 expects to keep the Metasploit penetration testing tool as a separate product with 'high integration' into Rapid7's vulnerability management products."

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  1. "penetration testing" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Bull-fucking-shit. It's used mainly by crackers to comprise websites. Fuck this tool and fuck the arrogant script kiddies padding their resumes with it. This software has no legitimate purpose.

    Yea, penetration testing, right. That line makes sense when simply checking for poor configurations. How the fuck does exploiting a host help? Is there a patch? Then it would have already been updated. Are you going to make your own patch? No, of course not. This software has no legitimate purpose.

  2. mfod 0p by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    of th$e founders 0f of America (GNAA)