On Wednesday, the project released an updated design framework to the Metasploit tool, which allows security experts to check computers on their networks and identify those vulnerable to newly ...

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 ...

Rapid7 the company who brings us the Metasploit penetration testing program is celebrating the 2 year anniversary of their acquisition of Metasploit with the release of a new free Community edition.

A popular open-source Web application attack and audit framework is now under the umbrella of Rapid7, the vulnerability management company that purchased the Metasploit Project last year. The w3af ...

We conducted our third live chat this week, this one with HD Moore, the founder of the Metasploit Project and the CSO of Rapid7. Moore got a lot of great questions on a wide variety of topics, so if ...

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, ...

Terms of the deal have not been disclosed, but the acquisition brings the open source penetration testing framework into Rapid7's portfolio and gives the firm access to a large database of reliable ...

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 ...