H. D. Moore
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| Born | 1981 |
| Nationality | U.S. American |
| Occupation | Information security researcher and programmer |
| Known for | Metasploit |
| Website | hdm |
H D Moore is network security expert, open source programmer, and hacker. He is the developer of the Metasploit Framework, a penetration testing software suite, and the founder of the Metasploit Project.
He served as Chief Research Officer at Boston, MA based security firm Rapid7, a provider of security data and analytics software and cloud solutions. He remained the chief architect of the Metasploit Framework until his departure from Rapid7 in 2016. In Jan 2016, Moore announced his departure from Rapid7 to join a venture capital firm.
He has been referred to as "the industry's most famous white hat hacker."
Moore developed security software utilities for the United States Department of Defense as a teenager, and founded the Metasploit Project in the summer of 2003 with the goal of becoming a public resource for exploit code research and development.
He is known for his work in WarVOX, AxMan, the Metasploit Decloaking Engine and the Rogue Network Link Detection Tools., and started a "Month of Browser Bugs" (MoBB) initiative in 2006 as an experiment in fast-paced vulnerability discovery with full disclosure. This started the Month of Bugs project meme, and resulted a number of web browser patches and improved security measures.
Moore has discovered, or been involved in the discovery of, a number of critical security vulnerabilities.
The Metasploit Framework is a development platform for creating security tools and exploits. The framework is used by network security professionals to perform penetration testing, system administrators to verify patch installations, product vendors to perform regression testing, and security researchers world-wide. The framework is written in the Ruby programming language and includes components written in C and assembly language. In October 2009, the Metasploit project was acquired by Rapid7. While the Metasploit Framework continues to be free, Rapid7 has added a commercial edition called Metasploit Express. With the acquisition of the project, HD Moore became Chief Security Officer at Rapid7 while remaining Chief Architect of Metasploit.
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