News of Rapid7’s Metasploit acquisition hit some in the information security community like a clap of thunder. The Metasploit Project has a deep, loyal user base, and it’s always unsettling to those ...

Researchers will release an open source tool at Black Hat USA that helps forensics investigators reconstruct attacks that use a popular Metasploit payload to covers its tracks. Mandiant's Steve Davis ...

Using different tools like Nmap for checking networks, Nessus for finding security problems, Burp Suite and Metasploit for testing websites and Wireshark for looking at network data, security teams ...

The information security community stands to benefit from Rapid7's acquisition of Metasploit, IT security experts say. But much depends on how Rapid7 handles its new property. News of Rapid7’s ...