Nmap 7.30 Security Scanner Adds 12 New IPv6 OS Fingerprints, 7 NSE Scripts | Linux Today

Nmap 7.30 Security Scanner Adds 12 New IPv6 OS Fingerprints, 7 NSE Scripts

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Marius Nestor
Sep 30, 2016

As expected, Nmap 7.30 is a major release that adds numerous new features and improvements, among which we can mention twelve new IPv6 OS fingerprints and seven NSE (Nmap Scripting Engine) scripts that have been submitted by various developers. There are now a total of 541 NSE scripts included in Nmap. Moreover, the new Npcap Windows packet capturing driver and library has been updated to version 0.10r2, a release that includes numerous bug fixes, new match lines and service probes were implemented for Tridium Fox, MQTT, DTLS, ProConOS, IPMI-RMCP, and PCWorx, and the output filtering has been improved.

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Marius Nestor

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