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Metasploit installation and basic commands

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Ivan Vanney
May 6, 2019

Metasploit has an up to date collection of vulnerability exploits and allows a user to execute them automatically without the need of programming knowledge. It comes by default on Kali Linux. With metasploit any attacker with basic knowledge can compromise any computer or mobile device in relatively easy way. This can be used for knowledge of how to defend a linux system from hacking attacks.

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