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Nmap 5.00 Released, With Many Improvements

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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    1. Re:Fyodor is an evil black hat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  6. Keep beating that horse by synthesizerpatel · · 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.

    1. Re:Keep beating that horse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      The type of chicks who'll fuck you because you wrote nmap are the type of chicks who'll fuck you for a bigmac, or who have had far too many bigmacs

    2. Re:Keep beating that horse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      * OS Fingerprinting (second generation engine)
      * Graphing (via the Zenmap front-end) of the network topology
      * Service fingerprinting
      * Script engine including
              * Windows SMB/CIFS/RPC scripts
              * Windows vulnerability detection scripts
              * SQL Injection scanning script
              * Telnet/HTTP/FTP/SMB brute force scripts
              * Conficker detection script
              * A lot more
      * XML output for report generation and nice XLST file for conversion to HTML

      lol. lua for your scripting language.. good move. If you used something that had a lot of third-party libraries available it might be useful enough to detract away from the nmap brand.

      also:

      * graphing isn't innovative

      * service fingerprinting isn't innovative and really just a money maker for Fyodor one can only assume by nature of licensing. (see: fingerprints)

      * XML output isn't innovative since... you guys have had that for a while. Adding a different _style_ of XML.. is definitely not innovative.

      So.. Yeah, I guess you can be proud of contributing but.. you guys aren't innovating. Sorry.

    3. Re:Keep beating that horse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      So basically, you are giving the standard open source response with faced with critism about missing features: code it yourself or shut up?