Ever wonder exactly how vulnerable your network is? Using these tools can give you an idea and provide the means to protect yourself. I don't know about you, but during the years of my IT career, I've ...

Your boss calls you into her office. You stare at the fake mahogany panels that line her wall. She strikes a match and asks, “Did you see the news? Criminals broke into our competitor's network.

In my first installment in this series on professional hacking tools, we downloaded and installed Metasploit, the exploitation framework. Now, we will begin to explore the Metasploit Framework and ...

In the information security space we are very luck to have a plethora of great open source tools that most all security pros use. Names like Snort, Metasploit, Nmap and ClamAV may not be household ...

Metasploit developer Matt Miller, who for years frustrated Microsoft officials with the public release of Windows exploits, is heading to Redmond to join Microsoft's Security Science team. Miller, who ...