Metasploit, 2nd Edition: The Penetration Tester's Guide - Softcover

David Kennedy; Mati Aharoni; Devon Kearns; Jim O'Gorman; Daniel G. Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1718502982 ISBN 13: 9781718502987

Publisher: No Starch Press, 2025

Synopsis

The second edition of the international bestseller Metasploit is written by some of the world's best hackers and is the only introduction you'll ever need to the legendary Framework. <p/> Fully revised to include all new chapters on attacking cloud applications, industrial control systems, and recent vulnerabilities, you'll learn Metasploit's module system, conventions, and interfaces as you launch simulated attacks. <p/>The Metasploit Framework makes discovering, exploiting, and sharing systemic vulnerabilities quick and painless. But, this popular pentesting tool can be hard to grasp for first-time users. Written by some of the world's top hackers and security experts, Metasploit fills the gap by teaching you how to best harness the Framework and interact with its vibrant community of Metasploit open-source contributors. <p/>This indispensable guide's updated second edition introduces modules and commands recently added to the Metasploit Framework, along with new chapters on the Cloud Lookup (and Bypass) module and attacking IoT or SCADA (industrial) systems using the Mobius client module. <p/>You'll learn:

• Modern pentesting techniques, including network reconnaissance and enumeration
• The Metasploit Framework's conventions, interfaces, and module system
• Client-side attacks
• Wireless exploits
• Targeted social-engineering attacks

In a digital ecosystem increasingly driven by cloud-based and industrial attacks, the modern hacking techniques covered in Metasploit, 2nd Edition are essential for today's penetration testers.

About this title

About the Author

David Kennedy is Chief Information Security Officer at Diebold Incorporated and creator of the Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET), Fast-Track, and other open source tools. He is on the BackTrack and Exploit-Database development team and is a core member of the Social-Engineer podcast and framework. Kennedy has presented at a number of security conferences including Black Hat, DEF CON, ShmooCon, Security B-Sides, and more. <p/>Jim O'Gorman (Elwood) is a professional penetration tester, an instructor at Offensive Security, and manages Offensive Security's consulting services. Jim has lived online from the times of BBS's, to FidoNet, to when SLIP connections were the new hotness. Jim spends time on network intrusion simulation, digital investigations, and malware analysis. When not working on various security issues, Jim spends his time assisting his children in their attempts to fight Zombie hordes. <p/>Devon Kearns is an instructor at Offensive-Security, a BackTrack Linux developer, and administrator of The Exploit Database. He has contributed a number of Metasploit exploit modules and is the maintainer of the Metasploit Unleashed wiki. <p/>Mati Aharoni is the creator of the BackTrack Linux distribution and founder of Offensive-Security, the industry leader in security training. <p/>Dr. Daniel G. Graham is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at The University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. His research interests include secure embedded systems and networks. Before teaching at UVA, Dr. Graham was a Program Manager at Microsoft in Seattle, Washington. He publishes in IEEE journals relating to sensors and networks.

Edition details

• Publisher: No Starch Press
• Publication date: 2025
• ISBN 10: 1718502982
• ISBN 13: 9781718502987
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 352