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The Metasploit Project is a computer security project that provides information about security vulnerabilites and aids in penetration testing and IDS signature development. Is is owned by Boston, Massachusettes-based security company Rapid7. Is is best-known sub-project is the open-source Metaspoilt Framework, a tool for developing and executing exploit code against a remote target machine. Other important sub-projects include the Opcode Database, shellcode archive and related research. The Metasploit Project includes anti-forensic and evasion tools, some of which are built into the Metasploit Framework. Metasploit Framework. Metasploit is pre-installed in the Kali Linux operating system. History Metasploit was created by H. D. Moore in 2003 as a portable network tool using Perl. By 2007, the Metasploit Framework had been completely rewritten in Ruby. On October 21, 2009, the Metasploit Project announced that it had been acquired by Rapid7, a security company that provides u...