Posted by Ori Weinroth, Google Cloud Platform Marketing

As a CTO, VP R&D, or CIO at a technology startup you typically need to maneuver and make the most out of limited budgets. Chances are, you’ve never had your CEO walk in and tell you, “We’ve just closed our Series A round. You now have unlimited funding to launch version 1.5.”

So how do you extract real value from what you’re given to work with? We’re gathering four start technology leaders for a free webinar discussion around exactly that: their strategies and tactics for operating lean. They will cover key challenges and share tips and tricks for:

• Reducing burn rate by making smart tech choices
• Getting the most out of a critical but finite resource - your dev team
• Avoiding vendor lock-in so as to maximize cost efficiencies

We’ve invited the following technology leaders from some of today’s most dynamic startups:

• Yorick Phoenix, CTO, Issio Solutions
• Erich Ess, CTO, Simple Relevance
• Greg Roodt, CTO, AirHelp
• Raphael Ouzan, CTO, BillGuard

Sign up for our Lean Ops Webinar in your timezone to hear their take:

Americas
Wednesday, 13 August 2015
11:00 AM PT
[Click here to register]

Europe, Middle East and Africa
Wednesday, 13 August 2015
10:00 AM (UK), 11:00 AM (France), 12:00 PM (Israel)
[Click here to register]

Asia Pacific
Wednesday, 13 August 2015
10:30AM (India), 1:00 PM (Singapore/Hong Kong), 3:00PM (Sydney, AEDT)
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Our moderator will be Amir Shevat, senior program manager at Google Developer Relations. We look forward to an insightful and open discussion and hope you can attend.

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Metasploit Pro 4.5.0 delivers completely new capabilities for running full-featured social engineering campaigns as well as significant improvements to the web application scanner. Metasploit Pro users can run sophisticated social engineering campaigns leveraging techniques like phishing and USB drops, watch results in real-time, and present reports containing clear risk analysis and remediation advice for the human attack surface.

Metasploit 4.5.0 includes 95 new exploits, 72 new auxiliary modules, and 13 new post modules over the 4.4.0 release, for a grand total of 180 new modules, all of which are detailed below. In addition, 56 reported bugs were resolved between 4.4.0 and 4.5.0.

Modules that are new since the 2012112801 update (the last update in the 4.4.0 line) includes modules targeting the Tectia SSH server, Metasploit, Nessus, Eaton NSM, Nexpose, Microsoft Windows, SIP, Adobe Indesign, Apple Quicktime, BlazeVideo, and Ektron. They are listed immediately below.

The update for 4.4.0 to 4.5.0 will be published shortly after the release of the 4.5.0 installer, and these release notes will be updated to reflect that updates availability.

https://community.rapid7.com/docs/DOC-2108

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Another set of funky non-human mecha.

Spotter Mech by Snow Leopard.

This one is part of a set.  The "mothership" could make for a rather interesting piece of terrain.








Alienbot Walker by Ybliss.

How did I miss this?!?  Another one thats part of a team.  Fantastic.







Mk.46 R23 Raptor III by Ravager.

A chicken walker with an interesting upper torso.

Beetle and Crawler by Multihawk.

Heres a two-fer.  Very nice use of the Bionicle/Hero Factory chrome pieces.

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