"Fear not the command line.."
- Bo Weaver
The Metasploit framework is the ultimate toolkit. There was a time when building a pen-testing machine would take days. Every individual exploit tool would have to be the following:
- Tracked down and researched
- Downloaded (sometimes over dial-up internet connection)
- Compiled from source
- Tested on your cracking platform
Now, from the great people at Rapid7 comes the Metasploit framework. Metasploit brings just about every tool you'll ever need as a plugin or function within the framework. It doesn't matter what OS or even what kind of device you discover on the network you are testing, Metasploit is likely will have a module...