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Metasploit Framework: The Most Used Penetration Testing Framework Metasploit Framework can be used to test security vulnerabilities, enumerate networks, execute attacks, and evade detection. It simply helps you to find, exploit, and validate vulnerabilities. If you are a pentester, cybersecurity researcher, tester, programmer or freestyler, the Metasploit Framework is all you need. Can be used for both legitimate and unauthorized activities, but we’re strongly suggest you to behave, and use this awesome pentesting framework to test your systems, help attack prevention and rise cybersecurity awareness. Metasploit Framework Main Features: Penetration testing framework with more than 1800 exploits. It has 1000+ auxillary modules, 300+ post-exploitation modules, 500+payloads, a lot of encoders and nops. Metasploit has a meterpreter module, an advanced, dynamically extensible payload (see bellow). Command-line interface (mfsconsole – see bellow), manual exploitation, manual credentials brute forcing, and much more. Metasploit Pro Features: Web Interface & Metasploit Pro console (create and manage projects, scan and enumerate hosts, import and export data, configure and run modules, run automated exploits, view information about hosts, collect evidence from exploited systems, etc.). Team collaboration capabilities (share host data, view collected evidence, create host notes, divide pentest into multiple parts, assign members a specific network segment to test, etc.). It runs the following services: PostgreSQL (database), Ruby on Rails (Metasploit Pro Web Interface), Metasploit service, bootstraps Rails, the Metasploit Framework, and the Metasploit RPC server. Penetration testing workflow with smaller and more manageable tasks and database exploit through a web based user interface. Web app testing for OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, phishing awareness management and spear phishing, and much more. If you want to see comparative features of the different editions, visit Metasploit features page. [HIDE][Hidden Content]]