Metasploit Review: Ten Years Later, Are We Any More Secure?
Is there such a thing as a security tool that’s too effective? Sounds silly. You’d probably never hear of a firewall being called too effective or an encryption algorithm as being too un-crackable. However, some have, over the years accused the Metasploit penetration testing framework of being that: too fast at publishing exploits and too good at taking advantage of vulnerabilities in the networks it’s used against.One recent example of why Metasploit raises concern involved a Java zero-day vulnerability that surfaced in August and affected millions of users of common Web browsers—Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, Safari on Windows, Linux,
What the influencers are saying
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Chris Gates
http://t.co/sBKTi97R
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George V. Hulme
thanks Jay! RT @jayjacobs: Nice write up George! "@georgevhulme: Metasploit Ten Years Later, Are We Any More Secure? http://t.co/qL645E1c
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George V. Hulme
Metasploit Review: Ten Years Later, Are We Any More Secure? http://t.co/qL645E1c #infosec
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