Metasploit Terms Exploit – to take advantage of a security flaw within a system, network, or application. Payload – is code that our victim computer to execute by the metasploit framework. Module – a small piece of code that can be added to the metasploit framework to execute an attack. Shellcode – a small piece of code used as a payload. MSFconsole Msfconsole is an all-in-one interface to most of the features in metasploit. Msfconsole can be used to launch attacks, creating listeners, and much, much more. We will be using Msfconsole throughout these tutorials, but mastering it will allow you to keep up with metaspolits rapidly changing framework. Metasploit comes installed by default on backtrack 5. To access msfconsole, open your console and type: root@bt: ~# cd /opt/framework3/msf3/ root@bt: ~#/opt/framework3/msf3# msfconsole After sometime, the msfconsole will boot. To view the help files, simply type help followed by...
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