If the applause and whoops at this week’s Black Hat conference were any indication, Metasploit 
has a hit on its hands with the new beta release of its bug-finding tool. Security researcher HD Moore officially unveiled the first beta of Metasploit 3.0 late yesterday afternoon in a crowded ballroom at the conference here.
Moving away from its Perl roots, Metasploit 3.0 was written in Ruby, since its object orientation was a better fit for the demands placed on the flaw-finding framework, including new multi-tasking features, Moore said.
The new version enables concurrent exploits and sessions, as well as passive exploits and recon modules. It also permits developers to suspend, restore, and share sessions, and open multiple shells per exploit attempt.
"This will all turn Metasploit into Nessus," Moore laughed, referring to the open-source vulnerability scanner. Dark Reading - Application and Perimeter Security - Metasploit 3.0 Makes Splash at Black Hat - Security News Analysis
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