"Metasploit is pleased to announce the immediate free
availability of the Metasploit Framework version 3.0 from
http://framework.metasploit.com/.
The Metasploit Framework ("Metasploit") is a development
platform for creating security tools and exploits. Version 3.0 contains
177 exploits 104 payloads 17 encoders and 3 nop modules. Additionally
30 auxiliary modules are included that perform a wide range of tasks
including host discovery protocol fuzzing and denial of service
testing.
Metasploit is used by network security professionals to
perform penetration tests system administrators to verify patch
installations product vendors to perform regression testing and
security researchers world-wide. The framework is written in the Ruby
programming language and includes components written in C and
assembler.
Metasploit runs on all modern operating systems including
Linux Windows Mac OS X and most flavors of BSD. Metasploit has been
used on a wide range of hardware platforms from massive Unix mainframes
to the tiny Nokia n800 handheld. Users can access Metasploit using the
tab-completing console interface the command line scripting interface
or the AJAX-enabled web interface. The Windows version of Metasploit
includes all software dependencies and a selection of useful networking
tools."
Download Link: http://framework.metasploit.com/
