Posts by Tod Beardsley

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Metasploit Updated: Trivial Access to TFTP

The Metasploit Update is out, and it's a little smaller than you might expect. We've recently rejiggered our development to QA to release workflow here at Rapid7, and that means that this week, we cut the release a couple days earlier than usual in order to ensure the work flow all makes sense and that the releases get the post-commit QA attention that they deserve. The end result is that we'll have a pretty light release this week (due to the shortened development cycle), but going forward, wee

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Metasploit Framework Updated: What's your Favorite Resource Script?

Sample Resource Scripts About a week ago, munky9001 posted on Reddit the headline, DB_Autopwn Deprecated! About time [http://redd.it/mzfp2]. Shortly after, HD wrote up a blog post, Six Ways to Automate Metasploit [/2011/12/08/six-ways-to-automate-metasploit], with the moral of the story being, "don't cry for db_autopwn, there are already much better methods to get your automated pwnage on." Of these, the easiest and most straightforward way to automate things is to write a resource script. Thi

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Metasploit Framework Updated: FastLib and More

Metasploit development moves fast. Blindingly fast, fueled by tons of open source contributors -- which is one of the reasons why we moved away from our tried and true SVN repository and on to GitHub. Now that we're on a more modern, more social development platform, we have all new ways to get overwhelmed with the pace of change on the Framework, especially since contributor code is that much easier to integrate now. So, in order to ensure that the more notable week-over-week changes get their

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Nmap? In my Metasploit? It's more likely than you'd think!

If you've been paying any attention to the open source security software space, you've probably noticed that one of our favorite tools, nmap [http://nmap.org/], ships with a pretty serious scipting engine. NSE allows users to run scripted interactions on discovered services, and lately, the repository of those scripts has exploded. As of the 5.50 release of nmap, there are 177 scripts and 54 supporting libraries [http://seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2011/0], covering all sorts of protocols you're li