Nmap 7.40 Holiday Release: a dozen new NSE scripts, hundreds of new fingerprints, new Npcap, faster brute forcing, and more... | Linux Today

Nmap 7.40 Holiday Release: a dozen new NSE scripts, hundreds of new fingerprints, new Npcap, faster brute forcing, and more…

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 21, 2016

Happy holidays from the Nmap Project!  In case your Christmas break plans
involve a lot of port scanning, we’re delighted to announce our holiday
Nmap 7.40 release!  This version stuffs your stockings with dozens of new
features, including:

   – 12 new NSE scripts
   – Hundreds of updated OS and version detection detection signatures
   – Faster brute force authentication cracking and other NSE library
   improvements
   – A much-improved version of our Npcap Windows packet capturing
   driver/library

There are many more improvements which are all describe below.  Nmap 7.40
source code and binary packages for Linux, Windows, and Mac are
available for free download from the usual spot:

https://nmap.org/download.html

If you find any bugs in this release, please let us know on the Nmap Dev
list or bug tracker as described at https://nmap.org/book/man-bugs.html.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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