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Two years after Rapid7 acquired the Metasploit Project, the company has rolled out a free and more user-friendly version of the open-source tool that is aimed at less technical users. . The new Metasploit Community Edition is a combination of the popular open-source Metasploit Framework and a basic version of the user interface of Rapid7's Metasploit Pro commercial product. HD Moore, Rapid7's CSO and chief architect for Metasploit, says the free pen-testing tool features a new user interface and automation of tasks to make penetration testing more approachable for organizations and users not necessarily versed in penetration testing. There's a growing number of organizations that want to get started with pen testing, either for compliance reasons or just to test it out, he says. The link for this article located at Dark Reading is no longer available. . Discover the intuitive Metasploit Community Edition designed for straightforward penetration testing. This platform makes security assessments accessible for beginners and experts alike.. Metasploit Community Edition, Pen Testing, Open Source Tool. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
GroundWork Monitor Community Edition is a free edition of GroundWork Monitor Enterprise, a commercial open source network monitoring solution geared toward large enterprise customers. Free editions often have some limited functionality, but GroundWork Monitor Community Edition offers the visibility a small- to medium-sized network needs by harnessing the power of popular tools such as Nagios, MRTG, NeDi, Ganglia, Nmap, MySQL, and RRDtool. Have you ever used an open source network monitoring tool to keep tabs on your network devices? Check out this free open source application which allows you to integrate popular network tools into a comprehensive network monitoring system. . The link for this article located at linux.com is no longer available. . Discover GroundWork Monitor Community Edition for thorough network oversight utilizing well-known open-source utilities.. GroundWork Monitor, Open Source Tool, Network Monitoring, Community Edition, IT Management. . Brittany Day
Guardian Digital is happy to announce the release of EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.5 (Version 3.0, Release 5). This release includes several bug fixes and feature enhancements to the Guardian Digital WebTool and the SELinux policy, several updated packages, and a couple of new packages available for installation. . The following reported bugs from bugs.engardelinux.org are fixed in this release: #0000061 Problem creating virtual interface via webtool. #0000059 Problem creating SSL certificates #0000056 When clicking ALL in Access Control - access is blocked. #0000055 SSH Key Passphrase issue #0000054 IMPROVED GDSN Package Management Interface #0000053 We can support EM64T #0000052 LILO cannot send output to the terminal Several other bugs are fixed in this release as well. New features include: Support for the 64bit Intel EM64T architecture. Users with these machines can now use the x86_64 ISO image in full 64bit mode. The latest stable versions of aide (0.11), gnupg (1.4.2.2), postfix (2.2.9), samba (3.0.21c), and xinetd (2.3.14), and zaptel (1.2.4) New packages for bridge-utils (1.1) and perl-Net-SNMP (5.2.0). All new users downloading EnGarde Secure Linux for the first time or users who use the LiveCD environment should download this release. Users who are currently using EnGarde Secure Linux do not need to download this release -- they can update their machines via the Guardian Digital Secure Network WebTool module. Downloading Below are the MD5 sums for the i686 and x86_64 ISO images: 48c576b482ef33c50d11307147af59c6 engarde-community-3.0.5.i686.iso 09f24395321845857d8ac459c3e28dd9 engarde-community-3.0.5.x86_64.iso You may download this ISO image by following the "Download Now!" link from engardelinux.org: Guardian Digital Makes Email Safe For Business - Microsoft 365, Goo.... (It may take several days for this image to make it to our mirrors, please be patient). The link for this articlelocated at EnGarde Development Team is no longer available. . EnGarde Secure Linux v3.0.5 is out now, featuring various bug fixes and enhanced functionalities, alongside support for 64-bit architecture.. EnGarde Secure Linux, Update Features, Bug Fixes, Security Update. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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