Nmap 5.00 Released, With Many Improvements

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 16, 2009 @07:50AM from the ok-now-release-another-nsfw-introduction dept.

iago-vL writes "The long-awaited Nmap Security Scanner version 5.00 was just released (download)! This marks the most important release since 1997, and is a huge step in Nmap's evolution from a simple port scanner to an all-around security and networking tool suite. Significant performance improvements were made, and dozens of scripts were added. For example, Nmap can now log into Windows and perform local checks (PDF), including Conficker detection. New tools included in 5.00 are Ncat, a modern reimplementation of Netcat (with IPv6, SSL, NAT traversal, port redirection, and more!), and Ndiff, for quickly comparing scan results. Other tools are in the works for future releases, but we're still waiting for them to add email and ftp clients so we can finally get off Emacs!"

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Keep beating that horse by synthesizerpatel · 2009-07-16 08:23 · Score: 0, Troll

You really have to hand it to Fyodor, he made a career out of nmap and I would assume still manages to get something from it.
But seriously.. nmap 5? Does it have clustering agents yet? AI behind fingerprinting? Enterprise features? TCP scanning is so ZZZzz. lets see some innovation already.