Next month, Moore will raise the already-high stakes when Metasploit releases a new piece of code--called eVade-o-Matic--that makes it harder for intrusion-detection systems and antivirus software to ...

Last week, I got on the phone with HD Moore to ask him how things have been going since he sold Metasploit to Rapid7, sending the open source security world into a frenzy some six months ago. Rapid7 ...

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 ...

A red-team framework released for penetration testing has become a weapon in the wild, repurposed by hackers to accelerate ...

Researchers at U.C. Berkeley, the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University created automatically generated exploits for five Microsoft programs based on patches provided with the ...

Less than 24 hours after Microsoft said it couldn't patch Windows to fix a systemic problem, attack code appeared Tuesday to exploit the company's software. Also on Tuesday, a security firm that's ...