t’s been about a year since one of the best pen testing tools has seen an upgrade to the framework. Metasploit Framework 3.3 is now available. Not only does it support Linux, Windows, OS X, and many versions of BSD, but now it also supports Windows 7. And according to the website this release has 446 exploits, 216 auxiliary modules, and hundreds of payloads, including an in-memory VNC service and the Meterpreter. However one of the new features that I’m pleased about is you can now run a full console version in Windows using Cygwin which is how I like to run nmap when I’m on my Windows computers, and RXVT. To be honest, I haven’t fired up any of my Linux machines in a while. I just boot from a Linux Live CD most the time but I digress.
The Windows installer works on all versions of Windows from 2000 to Windows 7 and the Linux installer works on most versions of Linux released in the last five years.
I’d like to point out, this is not a toy. This is the bad boy of penetration testing tools. I love using this because I know that if I can’t get into the system I’m testing with it, I can feel pretty confident that system is pretty secure. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that I’m 100% secure because I’ve been doing this long enough to know there is no such thing. But if you can’t successfully attack one of your computers with this, then chances are neither can the script kiddies.
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Metasplot Framework 3.3 Just Released
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