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Date: Thu Dec 03 2009 - 00:43:29 CST

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http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability_management/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222000147

By Kelly Jackson Higgins
DarkReading
Dec 01, 2009

A new version Metasploit released today includes integrated
vulnerability scanning for the popular open source penetration testing
tool.

Rapid7, which recently purchased Metasploit, today announced both the
new version of Metasploit, 3.3.1, as well as a new free version of
Rapid7's NeXpose vulnerability scanner. The NeXpose Community Edition is
basically a slimmed-down version of the company's enterprise-class
scanner that's limited in the number of IP's it can scan.

The free NeXpose version is integrated with Metasploit 3.3.1 with a
plug-in to the Metasploit console. "This integration is the first to
actually run the [vulnerability] scan and do the import of the data for
you," says HD Moore, chief security officer for Rapid7 and creator of
Metasploit. It lets the penetration tester run the scan, import the
data, and automatically run exploits against the vulnerabilities, he
says.

"This is the first step in the integration" of Metasploit and the
NeXpose vulnerability scanning platform, Moore says. The tools work
together from the Metasploit console with a command-line plug-in: the
penetration tester loads Metasploit, connects to NeXpose, and runs the
scan from there. The scan data is then brought in to Metasploit and
cross-referenced with Metasploit's modules, which then are automatically
launched to test out the vulnerabilities, he says. "The whole process is
from the Metasploit console," he says.

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