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PENETRATION TESTING
Metasploit Framework 3.0
REVIEWED BY PETER GIANNACOPOULOS
Metasploit LLC
Price: Free
The Metasploit Framework
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Installation is a breeze: download the appropriate package (Windows or Linux) and execute. The Meta-sploit Framework can either be used via the familiar and capable console interface or the much improved Web interface. For a free product, it contains surprisingly good documentation for users and developers, so it's fairly easy to get productive quickly.
Metasploit has a searchable database of more than 180 exploits, targeting multiple processor architectures and operating systems, with more than 70 payloads that can be delivered to exploitable systems. Using the product is ridiculously simple: select the exploit via the Web or console GUI, specify target, payload and options, and run the exploit. It really is as easy as "point, click, own."
This was first published in July 2007
Security Management Strategies for the CIO
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