Rapid7's acquisition of the Metasploit Project caused a lot of heads to turn. Concerns were raised about the project's future, specifically that of the Metasploit Framework. I held back from saying ...

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 ...

The Metasploit Project has found a way to go commercial without turning its design team into suits, as it was acquired by Rapid7. Details on the deal were not released, but Rapid7 did go through a $7 ...

When Rapid7 bought the Metasploit Project exactly one year ago this week, there were rumblings of concern that the open-source penetration testing tool would lose its identity and go all commercial.

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 posting, ...

脆弱性管理サービスを手掛ける米Rapid7は11月17日、脆弱性検証ツール最新版となる「Metasploit 3.3」の提供を開始したと発表した。Metasploitは10月にRapid7に買収され、引き続きープンソースプロジェクトとして運営されている。 Metasploit 3.3では新たに440以上の ...

Dennis Fisher talks with HD Moore, the founder of the Metasploit Project and the chief security officer at Rapid7, about the evolution of Metasploit, the difficulty of client-side exploitation in the ...

The Metasploit Project today updated its signature open-source exploit framework to Version 3.1, adding a new graphical interface for Windows that will boost the number of researchers and hackers who ...

オープンソースの脆弱性検証ツール「Metasploit」が、脆弱性管理サービスを手掛ける米Rapid7に買収された。2社が10月21日付で発表した。 発表によると、Rapid7はMetasploitを活用して、自社の脆弱性管理製品「NeXpose」の強化を図る。同時にMetasploitは今後もオープン ...