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Nmap news: stable release candidate 4.90RC1, SoC team, and new translations

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:04:44 -0700

Posted by Fyodor on Jun 26

Hi Folks. I'm pleased to announce some exciting Nmap news:

[=================Nmap 4.90RC1==================]

It has been nearly 10 months (and 11 dev releases) since 4.76, the
last stable Nmap release. And we've made many dramatic changes, so it
is time for a new stable version! I've...

Nmap 4.85BETA6 now avail wConficker detection

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:04:29 -0700

Posted by Fyodor on Mar 31

Hi Folks! In case you missed all the news reports yesterday, a couple
great researchers from the Honeynet Project (Tillmann Werner and Felix
Leder) and Dan Kaminsky came up with a way to remotely detect the
Conficker worm which has infected millions of machines worldwide.
Some say 15,000,000...

Nmap Network Scanning Book Released!

Tue, 9 Dec 2008 03:07:59 -0800

Posted by Fyodor on Dec 9

Nmap Hackers:

After promising you a book on Nmap for years, I'm delighted to finally
announce the release of Nmap Network Scanning! It contains everything
I've learned about network scanning from more than a decade of Nmap
development, plus some bad jokes and (over Time Warner's written
...

Nmap News: 4.76 release, Defcon presentation online, Is port scanning legal?

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:11:16 -0700

Posted by Fyodor on Sep 23

Hi everyone. I'm happy to report that the Nmap 4.75 release (with
port frequencies, Zenmap topology, etc.) was a big success. But such
large exposure inevitably leads to bug discovery, so we've
released version 4.76 with about a dozen small fixes and stability
improvements. If 4.75 is...

Nmap 4.75 released

Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:14:31 -0700

Posted by Fyodor on Sep 8

Hi Everyone. I'm delighted to report the release of Nmap 4.75, which
has almost 100 significant improvements since 4.68. Some which I'm
most excited about are:

o While Nmap stands for "Network Mapper", it hasn't been able to
actually draw you a map of the...

Nmap 4.68 release

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:06:28 -0700

Posted by Fyodor on Jul 31

Hi All. I'm happy to report that there have been several stable Nmap
releases since I mailed you about Nmap 4.60 in March. The latest
version is 4.68, and I think you'll like it (unless you still use
Win2K, which can be problematic due to IPv6 issues that we hope to
resolve in the next...

Lots of Nmap News

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:45:38 -0700

Posted by Fyodor on Jul 31

Hi All. I feel derelict for failing to post any Nmap news to this
nmap-hackers list in the last four months, but you can rest assured
that we've been busy on the project! For example, there have been
1,181 posts on the nmap-dev list (not all from me) since my March
nmap-hackers...

Nmap accepting applications for Summer of Code developers

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:04:25 -0700

Posted by Fyodor on Mar 24

It may have taken me four months to send this year's first
nmap-hackers mail, but the second only took me four hours. I want to
let you all know that Nmap has been accepted for the fourth year
running to participate in the Google Summer of Code program. This
generous and innovative program...