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Metasploit for Beginners

By : Sagar Rahalkar
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Metasploit for Beginners

By: Sagar Rahalkar

Overview of this book

This book will begin by introducing you to Metasploit and its functionality. Next, you will learn how to set up and configure Metasploit on various platforms to create a virtual test environment. You will also get your hands on various tools and components used by Metasploit. Further on in the book, you will learn how to find weaknesses in the target system and hunt for vulnerabilities using Metasploit and its supporting tools. Next, you'll get hands-on experience carrying out client-side attacks. Moving on, you'll learn about web application security scanning and bypassing anti-virus and clearing traces on the target system post compromise. This book will also keep you updated with the latest security techniques and methods that can be directly applied to scan, test, hack, and secure networks and systems with Metasploit. By the end of this book, you'll get the hang of bypassing different defenses, after which you'll learn how hackers use the network to gain access into different systems.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Updating the Metasploit Framework

The Metasploit Framework is commercially backed by Rapid 7 and has a very active development community. New vulnerabilities are discovered almost on a daily basis in various systems. For any such newly discovered vulnerability, there's quite a possibility that you get a ready-to-use exploit in the Metasploit Framework. However, in order to keep abreast with the latest vulnerabilities and exploits, it's important to keep the Metasploit Framework updated. You may not need to update the framework on a daily basis (unless you are very actively involved in penetration testing); however, you can target for weekly updates.

The Metasploit Framework offers a simple utility called msfupdate that connects to the respective online repository and fetches the updates: