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Nmap 6 Released! Fyodor (May 21)
Hi folks! After almost three years of work, 3,924 code commits, and
more than a dozen point releases since Nmap 5, I'm delighted to
announce the release of Nmap 6! It includes a more powerful Nmap
Scripting Engine, 289 new scripts, better web scanning, full IPv6
support, the Nping packet prober, faster scans, and much more!

For the top 6 improvements in Nmap 6, see the release notes:

http://nmap.org/6

Or you can go straight to the...

Last Chance to Apply for the Nmap/Google Summer of Code! Fyodor (Apr 04)
Hi 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 students who want to spend the summer improving Nmap!
They gain valuable experience, get paid, strengthen their résumé, and
write code for millions of users.

Previous SoC students helped create the Nmap Scripting Engine,...

Nmap 5.61TEST5 released with 43 new scripts, improved OS & version detection, and more! Fyodor (Mar 09)
Hi folks! We've been working hard for the last 2 months since
5.61TEST4, and I'm pleased to announce the results: Nmap 5.61TEST5.
This release has 43 new scripts, including new brute forcers for http
proxies, SOCKS proxies, Asterisk IAX2, Membase, MongoDB, Nessus
XMLRPC, Redis, the WinPcap remote capture daemon, the VMWare auth
daemon, and old-school rsync. Better check that your passwords are
strong! Some other fun scripts are...

Updates on Download.Com caught adding malware to Nmap installer Fyodor (Dec 06)
Hi Folks. A lot has happened since yesterday's email about
Download.com's antics (http://seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2011/5) and I
wanted to send a quick update.

First of all, several people complained about my angry tone and my
telling Download.com to "F*ck" themselves. I appologize to anyone
offended. But if you ever spend more than 14 years creating free
software as a gift to the community, only to have it used as bait by...

C|Net Download.Com is now bundling Nmap with malware! Fyodor (Dec 05)
Hi Folks. I've just discovered that C|Net's Download.Com site has
started wrapping their Nmap downloads (as well as other free software
like VLC) in a trojan installer which does things like installing a
sketchy "StartNow" toolbar, changing the user's default search engine
to Microsoft Bing, and changing their home page to Microsoft's MSN.

The way it works is that C|Net's download page (screenshot attached)...

SecTools.Org relaunched based on your survey responses! Fyodor (Nov 04)
Hi folks! Remember the latest Nmap survey that almost 3,000 of you
filled out? Well, it took a while, but I'm happy to report that we've
tabulated the results and launched a new version of the SecTools.Org
top security tools list! In addition to updating the data, we've
dramatically improved the site. It now includes user ratings and
reviews, tracks release dates, offers searching and sorting, and even
lets you nominate your...

Nmap 5.59BETA1 Released! Fyodor (Jun 30)
Hi Folks. Other than the recent informal IPv6 commemorative edition,
we haven't had a real Nmap release in more than four months since
5.51. That is in part because we've been so busy with seven (!)
full-time Google Summer of Code students cranking out tons of
excellent code! But I think we've pulled this together into a release
we can be proud of, and I'm happy to announce Nmap 5.59BETA1!

This version includes:
o 40 new...

Happy World IPv6 Day From the Nmap Project! Fyodor (Jun 08)
Hi Folks. You have probably heard that today is World IPv6 Day, with
sites like Google, Facebook, and Yahoo publishing IPv6 records for
their main web sites. I'm happy to report that the Nmap Project is
celebrating in several ways:

==Scanme Updated to IPv6==

You probably know that we run the machine scanme.nmap.org as a system
people are allowed to use as a target for test scans and the like.
That system now has native IPv6 support. So...

Nmap 5.51 and SoC Opportunity Fyodor (Apr 05)
Hi Folks! I'm happy to report that the Nmap 5.50 release was a big
success, with nearly 300,000 downloads in the first two weeks. That
much attention inevitably uncovers some bugs, so we released Nmap 5.51
in February to address them. You can find the release notes at
(http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2011/q1/518) and the downloads at
http://nmap.org/download.html.

I also wanted to let you know about a serious potential competitive
threat to...

Nmap 5.50: Now with Gopher protocol support! Fyodor (Jan 28)
Hi folks! It has been a year since the last Nmap stable release
(5.21) and six months since development version 5.35DC1, so I'm
pleased to release Nmap 5.50! I'm sure you'll find that it was worth
the wait!

A primary focus of this release is the Nmap Scripting Engine, which
has allowed Nmap to expand up the protocol stack and take network
discovery to the next level. Nmap can now query all sorts of
application protocols,...

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