Nmap Security Scanner

Posted by Fyodor on Nov 03Hi folks! I'm happy to announce the release of Nmap 6.49BETA6 with many great improvements! This includes a lot of work from our Summer of Code students as well as our regular crew of developers. The release has 10 new ... [More] NSE scripts, hundreds of new IPv4 and IPv6 OS detection signatures, and a bunch of new version detection sigs bringing our total above 10,000! There are dozens of other improvements as well. As usual, Nmap 6.49BETA5... [Less]

Posted by Fyodor on Oct 19Nmap hackers: I'm pleased to report the successful completion of our 11th Google Summer of Code. And this year all five of our students passed! They added many great features and improvements which Nmap users are sure to ... [More] enjoy. Much of their work has already been integrated in the Nmap 6.49BETA5 release last month, and we're working to integrate even more in the upcoming stable version. Let's look at their accomplishments... [Less]

Posted by Fyodor on Sep 25Hi folks. I know I haven't posted to this Nmap Announcement lists since June, but we've had a very busy summer and I'm going to try and catch you up in one go! First of all, we've had four new releases since then, including ... [More] today's release of Nmap 6.49BETA5. They are all stability-focused releases to fix all the bugs and problems we can find in preparation for a big upcoming stable release in October (I hope). As... [Less]

Posted by Fyodor on Jun 03Hi Folks. I'm happy to announce the release of Nmap 6.49BETA1. This version has hundreds of improvements, including: * 25 new NSE scripts (total is now 494) * Integrated all of your latest OS detection and ... [More] version/service detection submissions (including IPv6). This allows Nmap to properly identify Linux 3.18, Windows 8.1, OS X 10.10, Android 5, etc. We now have more than 10,000 service detection signatures! * Infrastructure... [Less]

Posted by Fyodor on May 07Hello everyone. Google has agreed to sponsor five amazing students to spend this summer enhancing the Nmap Security Scanner and I'm proud to introduce our 2015 team: *Andrew Farabee* will be working to refactor parts of ... [More] the Nmap codebase in ways which enable more functionality while also improving performance and hopefully easing code maintenance too! His first task involves adding a SOCKS proxy name resolution feature to enable scanning... [Less]

Posted by Fyodor on Mar 24Hi folks. I'm delighted to report that Nmap has been accepted by Google to participate in this year's Summer of Code internship program. This innovative and extraordinarily generous program provides $5,500 stipends to ... [More] college and graduate students anywhere in the world who spend the summer improving Nmap from home! They gain valuable experience, get paid, strengthen their résumés, and write code for millions of users. We're... [Less]

Posted by Fyodor on Mar 20Hi folks. I'm delighted to report that Nmap has been accepted by Google to participate in this year's Summer of Code internship program. This innovative and extraordinarily generous program provides $5,500 stipends to ... [More] college and graduate students anywhere in the world who spend the summer improving Nmap from home! They gain valuable experience, get paid, strengthen their résumés, and write code for millions of users. We're... [Less]

Posted by Fyodor on Dec 19Fellow Nmap Hackers, Perhaps you remember in 2010 how we capped off a massive scan of the top million Internet web sites by creating a giant interactive collage, with each site scaled by its popularity? Well, I'm happy to ... [More] report that we restarted our scanners this year and have launched a brand new and much improved edition of Icons of the Web at http://nmap.org/favicon/! It's interesting to see how things have changed in just 3... [Less]

Posted by Fyodor on Aug 19Hi Folks. It has been a while since the last stable Nmap release, but I'm pleased to release Nmap 6.40 and I think you'll consider it worth the wait! It includes 14 new NSE scripts, hundreds of new OS and service detection ... [More] signatures, a new --lua-exec feature for scripting Ncat, initial support for NSE and version scanning through a chain of proxies, improved target specification, many performance enhancements and bug fixes, and much... [Less]

Posted by Fyodor on Apr 26Hi Folks. I'm happy to announce that the Nmap Project has again been accepted into the Google Summer of Code program. This innovative and extraordinarily generous program provides $5,000 stipends to college and graduate ... [More] students who spend the summer improving Nmap! They gain valuable experience, get paid, strengthen their résumés, and write code for millions of users. Previous SoC students helped create the Nmap Scripting Engine, Zenmap... [Less]