3 min
Metasploit
Installing Metasploit Community Edition on BackTrack 5 R1
Update: I just published a new blog post for using Metasploit on BackTrack 5 R2
[/2012/05/30/install-metasploit-on-backtrack].
BackTrack 5 R1 comes pre-installed with Metasploit Framework 4.0. Unfortunately,
Metasploit Community, which brings a great new Web UI and other functionality,
was introduced in version 4.1, so it's not included by default. Updating
Metasploit Framework using the msfupdate command will not install the Web UI. In
addition, BT5 only makes the development trunk available,
2 min
Linux
Offensive Security = Backtrack Linux + Metasploit Pro
This week the guys over at Offensive Security
[http://www.offensive-security.com/] officially added Metasploit Pro
[http://www.rapid7.com/products/metasploit-pro.jsp] to their curriculum for the
class Pentration Testing with Backtrack
[http://www.offensive-security.com/online-information-security-training/penetration-testing-backtrack/]
. For those not familiar with it, BackTrack [http://www.backtrack-linux.org/] is
a Linux distribution that includes a lot of tools for penetration testing. Since