Metasploit is a penetration testing framework that makes hacking simple. It’s an essential tool for many attackers and defenders. Point Metasploit at your target, pick an exploit, what payload to drop ...

Ryan Naraine reports that Metasploit 3.0 has been released with a bunch of preloaded exploits and other payloads. With Metasploit, it's point, click and hack. After checking out the post and the ...

Drive-by exploits install ransomware on outdated Android devices using a stolen Hacking Team exploit and the first weaponized Towelroot attack. A menacing wave of ransomware that locks up Android ...

Dangerous hacks come in small packages. Or they will, perhaps, when an app called Anti, or Android Network Toolkit, hits the Android market next week. The program, which Israeli security firm ...

Hacking experts have demonstrated ways to attack Android smartphones using methods they said work on virtually all such devices in use today, despite recent efforts by search engine giant Google to ...

Developers have released a major update to the Metasploit security testing tool designed to run more smoothly on the Windows operating system. Metasploit 3.0, released early Tuesday morning, has been ...

Recently-released attack code exploiting a critical Android vulnerability gives attackers a point-and-click interface for hacking a majority of smartphones and tablets that run the Google operating ...

The MWR Labs hacking team. L-R: Nils, Jon Butler, Tyrone Erasmus and Jacques Louw. AMSTERDAM -- Using a pair of zero day vulnerabilities, a team of security researchers from U.K.-based MWR Labs hacked ...

For more than a decade, a powerful app called Metasploit has been the most important tool in the hacking world: An open-source Swiss Army knife of hacks that puts the latest exploits in the hands of ...