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Testing WordPress Password Security with Metasploit

How easy is it to hack wordpress admin accounts? Poor WordPress password security is an ongoing issue, the purpose of this post is to highlight how easy it is to break into wordpress admin accounts that have weak passwords. Metasploit Framework is an open source penetration testing application that has modules for the explicit purpose […]
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12 years ago

Armitage – Cyber Attack Management for Metasploit

Metasploit development continues in leaps and bounds both from within Rapid7 and from the community. This is newly released tool puts the power of the Metasploit Framework into the hands of those who prefer point and clicky interfaces. Why does Armitage exist? "I've met too many security professionals who don't know how to use Metasploit. […]
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13 years ago

Metasploit vs Snort as Snorby

Recently I stumbled acorss Snorby, an excellent easy to use implementation of Snort. It is a new web interface for Snort that is very pretty, but also simple. An excellent introduction to Intrusion Detection Systems, that is not going to scare anyone away. Now how to I get hold of this I hear you cry.... […]
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13 years ago

Metasploit 3.4.0 on Ubuntu 10.04 a quick introduction

Perhaps you have heard of metasploit. It is a very powerful exploitation framework developed by HD Moore. Solid growth has seen an early version that was a few exploits in a perl based wrapper turn into a ruby coded framework that is competing with Core Impact and Canvas in the pen-testing community. Here is a […]
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13 years ago