One of the most frustrating things for me when I started with metasploit (known as msf from here in) was not exploiting something, but finding something to exploit.  I had all these exploits at my finger tips but my ability to find something to pwn was limited by having to move back and forth between a bunch of tools and cross reference things.

This changed when I did my PwB v3 course, I got much better at determining when and how to use msf to take advantage of something I found.  There was still a lot of moving between tools but I was at least able to identify vulnerable hosts.

I use Nessus in my day job to scan for vulns and sometimes I need to be able to turn those results into demonstrations or do false positive checking.  It was a little annoying to run the scan either from the cli, or usually from the Nessus Web Client and then have to manually import the Nessusv2 report.

At the same time MSF Express came out.  WoW, that is some slick shit. Read the rest of this entry »