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Hands-On Red Team Tactics
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Hands-On Red Team Tactics

by Himanshu Sharma, Harpreet Singh
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
9h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Running Metasploit

Once the installation is done, running Metasploit is pretty simple. To do this, we type the following command in the Terminal:

msfconsole  

After doing this, we should see that the Metasploit framework is up and running. When the msfconsole is loaded for the first time, it asks and automatically creates a database using PostgreSQL for use. This database is used to store the data collected from our scans, exploits, and so on. Every week, new exploits and other modules get added to Metasploit, so it's best that we update it every fortnight. This can be done by using the following command:

 msfupdate 

We now run the help ...

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ISBN: 9781788995238