Introducing Metasploit

The Metasploit Project is a computer security project written in ruby that provides information about security vulnerabilities and aids in penetration testing and IDS signature development. The tool is great for pentesting and exploiting weaknesses in systems and if there is no weaknesses this helps in creating payloads which are used to hack other system. The tool now includes more than 1677 exploits organized over 25 platforms, including Android, PHP, Python, Java, Cisco, and more. The framework also carries nearly 500 payloads.