CHAPTER 8Using Metasploit
This chapter will show you how to use Metasploit, a penetration testing platform for developing and launching exploits. In this chapter, we discuss the following topics:
• Metasploit: the big picture
• Getting Metasploit
• Using the Metasploit console to launch exploits
• Exploiting client-side vulnerabilities with Metasploit
• Penetration testing with Metasploit’s Meterpreter
• Automating and Scripting Metasploit
• Going further with Metasploit
Metasploit: The Big Picture
Metasploit is a free, downloadable framework that makes it very easy to acquire, develop, and launch exploits for computer software vulnerabilities. It ships with professional-grade exploits for hundreds of known software vulnerabilities. When H.D. ...
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