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 ...

Moore, who serves as CSO of Boston-based vulnerability management vendor Rapid7, said his team produced a security update for Metasploit users and started an analysis of the threat to determine the ...

Days after a bug in QuickTime was revealed, an attack code for exploiting the bug and hijacking Macs, including those running Leopard, has come out Hackers now have sample attack code for the newest ...

Hackers working on the open-source Metasploit project have spiffed up a zero-day attack on Microsoft's Internet Explorer, making it more reliable -- and more likely to be used by criminals. Security ...

Security product provider Rapid7 has updated its widely used open-source Metasploit exploitation framework, expanding the software so it supports enterprise IT security staff as well as its core ...

Every year, cyber-attacks cost businesses billions of dollars and over 80% of security breaches are linked to software vulnerabilities that could have been found with proper penetration testing tools.