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Nmap is a free, open-source tool for network discovery and security auditing. It's valued by systems and network administrators for network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime.

Nmap is a widely used free and open-source network scanner. It works on most operating systems: Linux, Windows, macOS, Solaris, and BSD. Nmap 7.93.

In this video for Help Net Security, Shani Dodge Reiner, Development Team Leader at Vicarius, explains how to identify vulnerabilities using the NMAP tool. NMAP is a very powerful and popular tool for network mapping.

The United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre, the government agency that leads UK's cyber security mission, is releasing NMAP Scripting Engine scripts to help defenders scan for and remediate vulnerable systems on their networks. The scripts, authored by i100 partners or security experts who want to share their scripts with the community, will be published on GitHub through a new project named Scanning Made Easy.

Review: Practical Vulnerability Management: A Strategic Approach to Managing Cyber RiskAndrew Magnusson started his information security career 20 years ago and he decided to offer the knowledge he accumulated through this book, to help the reader eliminate security weaknesses and threats within their system. AWS adds new S3 security and access control featuresAmazon Web Services has made available three new S3 security and access control features.

Over a year has passed since Nmap had last been updated, but this weekend Gordon "Fyodor" Lyon announced Nmap 7.90. First and foremost, Nmap 7.90 comes with Npcap 1.0.0, the first completely stable version of the raw packet capturing/sending driver for Windows.

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and podcasts: Critical Bluetooth flaw opens millions of devices to eavesdropping attacks A newly disclosed vulnerability...

Nmap is a free and open source utility for network discovery and security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing...

Your nmap service probe database is probably out of date. It's easy to update that special file to the latest version.

Your nmap service probe database is probably way out of date. Jack Wallen shows you how to update that special file to the latest version.